Tag: NewZealand
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Friday 22 January 2010 Highlights: Harness Racing at Addington Around 8.45 am Erin headed in Andrew and my room to try and wake up Andrew, now this is a very difficult task, some would say near impossible. After Erin yelled his name about 14 times and jumped on the bed she had some success.
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Thursday 21 January 2010 Highlights: Erin’s delight in seeing us after so long away We cleared Customs very quickly. New Zealand treats Australians as residents for Custom purposes so it almost felt like being at home. After clearing Customs we heard ‘Andrew, Andrew’ which was Erin shouting for joy seeing her older brother again after…
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Wednesday 20 January 2010 Highlights: Spare seat on the long flight to New Zealand The flight was mostly uneventful; we did end up with a seat free between us as I had planned. Even better we were just in front of the entry door meaning we would get off the plane very early. Andrew started…
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Monday 30 July 2007 – Photos Highlights: Flight Home and onwards to Brisbane So the short trip to New Zealand was over today and all I needed to do was get back to Melbourne in time to catch a work trip to Brisbane for work. As my plane was leaving Auckland Airport I received a call…
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Sunday 29 July 2007 – Photos Highlights: Hobbiton (Lord of the Rings) I had a brilliant time today. First I got a call at 7 am local time (5 am as far as my body was concerned!) asking if I wanted to change trip as I was the only one booked, after advising no I…
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Saturday 28 July 2007 – Photos Highlights: Qantas Melbourne International First Class lounge, Upgraded to Business Class after taking my economy seat 🙂 The trip is about two things, helping re-qualifying status for my next world trip and seeing Lord of the Rings sets.
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Back in late 1999 I set out on my first independent world trip with my best friend Jon Danaher. The trip was broken down into three parts 1) New Zealand: 11 November 1999 to 26 November 1999 2) USA: 26 November 1999 to 27 January 2000 and 3) The United Kingdom and the Republic of…
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Sunday 5 March and Monday 6 March 2000 Highlights: Family hugs at the airport, Auckland Air New Zealand Lounge I guess plane trips like this make you miss home even more. Three flights, 30 hours in the air with two 3 hour stopovers in between. I did learn something while at the Auckland Airport, my…
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Friday 26 November 1999 Highlights: International flight. We left Auckland behind as we began our journey to the USA part of of trip for 64 days starting in Honolulu and ending in Los Angeles on Australia Day 26 January 2000. The first surprise today was the departure tax. I wonder if I while ever get…
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Thursday 25 November 1999 Highlights: Miscalculating taxi ride resulting in walking 6 kilometres to hostel. We got up early at 5.30 am and went to the Christchurch Airport to try and score a standby ticket. We eventually got one but it costs about $195 NZD which was move then then we originally planned. At 10.40…
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