My, this travelling on long flights gets harder every year for this old man. We set off from Taupo to Auckland, NZ, early on the Tuesday morning of 6th June. About an hours flight. We meet up with Benita, who was traveling to England to attend the same wedding we were going to. After a wait of 3 hours we boarded our Air NZ flight to Shanghai and were very pleased to find that the flight was not to full and we both were able to claim 3 seats each. This made the fight of 12 hours so much easier as we could stretch out and I could actually get some sleep, which is unusual for me. I 'm not good at sleeping on flights. When we reached Shanghai the move to the transfer area was
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