Life stage 3, autumn! A time of semi retirement. Hoping to reach life stage 4 with more travel memories to ponder in my winter years. This blog is about my short, but long distance trip to New Zealand to see my son.
Looking forward to; 1. Seeing Will again after so long. 2. Meeting Nat after speaking on Skype - which is great but you don't really get to know someone in the cyber world. 3. Seeing New Zealand - of all the places people tell me they'd like to see again it's top of the list. 4. Having a small drink with Will and reminiscing! 5. Walking in Gandalf's footsteps. 6. Watching a bungee jump and wondering what it feels like but never finding out! Not looking forward to; A. Packing. B. Check in. C. 26 hours travelling. D. Meeting new people when your jet lagged and don't know which way is up yet still trying to appear cool and interesting. E. Insufficient leg room. F. Mostly everything about long haul. In preparation for my trip I ... read more
How to book a flight? Google the destination, pick a website and search for flights. After half and hour the red mist will descend and then you call my friendly travel agent Sue Claridge of "travel counsellors"! An e-mail arrives with flights, times and cost and the peace is restored as you reply to confirm and it's "job done"! So it's all set for end of Nov to fly west via Vancouver to Aukland and then onto Queenstown.... read more
