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

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!

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 […]

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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.