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Home again

We flew back from Nelson to Auckland in the evening.  Home for another month before our next domestic exploration in autumn.

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Back home

It was just an overnight trip for the music, art deco architecture, classic cars and unexpectedly, a swim with sharks.  My flight back to Auckland was uneventful unlike the outbound journey!

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A bad start

Today I set off to attend the Art Deco Festival in the Hawkes Bay.  I had been before and having had such a good time previously, it seemed like a good idea to repeat the experience. It wasn’t all smooth sailing (or flying, should I say) this time. While driving out to Auckland airport, Air […]

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Home sweet home

It’s never nice to abandon the Kiwi summer, so it was nice to arrive back in Auckland around 1110 knowing that there’s some of the summer left for me.

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Last stop

Today I fly from Penang at 1455 to Hong Kong for an overnight, before picking up my flight back to Auckland on an Air New Zealand staff ticket (hence the circuitous routing). It’s also one of the rare instances AirAsia gets my money … while I normally buy free or nearly-free tickets for my travels, […]

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Leaving home

It was a late night departure at 2355 to Hong Kong.  This allowed me to fit in a full day at work … giving me a few extra drops of income before I (once again) head off into joblessness. Kim had managed to swap on to my flight as crew, meaning that we could have […]

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Chores and errands

Crossing the International Dateline, we landed in Auckland on Tuesday at 0850.  We had the day to do chores and errands for the remainder of the day in Auckland; that was the reason for coming back early.  We are grateful for the time we had in Rarotonga and Aitutaki, and didn’t feel short-changed for coming […]

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Change of plan

We had planned on getting the evening flight home.  But there were things that needed sorting out at home so we changed our flights to an early one, very early in fact at 0615.  We got on the flight fine on standby.

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Booking my next trip

We departed from Auckland at 0900 bound for Rarotonga.  But it was an early set-off from the house at 0630 to avoid the Auckland traffic. But before that, I had to spend about 15 minutes on the computer as AirAsia had a sale for their new flights from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul … so I […]

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What makes a bird noisy or quiet?

From Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne, I managed to get 3 seats because some passengers moved.  So each seat cost me about NZD10 only!  For 8 hours!! I’ve always noticed that the Airbus A330 (which operated the flight) is eerily quiet, especially if you sit near the engine (ironical).   Many a time I have hopped off […]

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