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Leaving New Zealand

Tuesday/Rārua We left our home in Auckland at 3.30 pm (via Anna our daughter in her boyfriend - Mark's car) saying goodbye to 23 Cedar Rd for the last time after 25 years living there.  We were on a 7.45 pm Air NZ flight heading for San Francisco and Bill whispered in my ear “I have got emailed that Air NZ took our lowest possible offer for a One-Up upgrade that I pitched for a week ago, and we are going business class.” That was music to my ears! Getting out of Cedar Rd has been ...

Welcome to our journey

Naumai, welcome to my travel blog/ whakairanga rangitaki 2019/2020. (That is interesting there is a word in Māori for blog, when they did not even write 200 years ago!) As some of you know I am interested in Māori ways, partly because they lived off the land with no pollution, they were the first humans who lived in Aotearoa, and I am learning their ways as well as their language. In this blog you will learn some Māori words and ways as I learn and can, if you ch...