Auckland Skywalk City houses a rotating restaurant with glass elevators so you can watch the ground disappear beneath you and in the basement they pay homage to Peter Jacksons WETA studio (the one that made those little Lord of the … Continue reading
Wow what a fantastic journey from London via Lala land on Air NZ. Excellent plane, fantastic service, nothing was too much trouble. Can defo recommend Air NZ, simply brilliant. Through customs, smooth, out to the shuttle bus and into the … Continue reading
11 hours on a plane, very comfy and unusual seats and oodles of drinks and grub. Virgin take note, premium economy give you PROPER champagne and you don’t even need to get up for the drinks, you order them from … Continue reading
Oooh only an hour to go before we board the plane to NZ, nice brekky (bloomin expensive), Poottle over to the terminal, smooth checkin and a relatively painless security (heathrow airport is so grubby, what a first impression the world … Continue reading
Well this time tomorrow we will be on a 777-300 winging (geddit) our way to the land of Hobbitsies. These are the proposed seats for the flight, the romantic “Space seats” where one of the party gets to slob all … Continue reading
All packed and ready, bed for 12.30 up at four and then over to the CaddyFrogs for a brekky. Timings marred only slightly by Mrs Fogg faffing as women do and having to put a HMRC cheque in the bank … Continue reading
Ello it’s a Victor moment, so you may want to to turn off. Are we sitting comfortably, then I will begin, on the 8th Jan we went hunting for trolley bag cases (not a suitcase, but not a rucksack), eventually … Continue reading
No not Laurence Olivier in the Marathon Man, more of a Burn Baby Burn and the annual “the shredder has only managed 3 sheets of paper” fire party. Starring yours truly (aka Man Makes Fire, UGG, Mr and Mrs Lucky … Continue reading
What’s that rustling, yup Mr Spike decided to sleep in the empty bags, good job we checked before slinging the bags in the bin. [Posted from my super cool iPhone] … Continue reading
Ahhhh the joys of online ordering so last week Mrs Fogg and I went hunting for replacement travel bags, to find only one Antler sack/ bag/ thingy. Mrs Foggy found a company selling the self same bags “luggageexpress.co.uk” so off … Continue reading
