Arrival: Well we survived the flight in quite good shape. The girls got into a routine of dinner, sleep and then a pre-touchdown breakfast for the three legs of the flight (London → Bankok → Sydney → Auckland) and Ben and I managed to watch 3 films, eat 6 meals in the 30 hours and drink plenty of G&T’s. - which as most of you know is our equivalent of a good night out! At the airport we were given a thorough going over by the food police, who seemed to think we wanted to be lugging a carrier bag of overripe battered fruit into NZ - the good news was that they actually had a bin, the bad news was that they assumed we must be harbouring other nasty pests and we were promptly
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