Next stop Insurance claims, car out of action for weeks and hassle with insurance payments.
Oh well, the week has to get better, hopefully (guess that’s one way to get more time off).
Tomorrow is the dreaded return to work and the start of a year without holidays, now ok we know we are a very spoilt pair who can usually manage loads of holidays and that it’s far more normal to just have the one break, but you have to factor in that we are just a little nuts too.
Mr Fogg is already depressed and has donned his new t shirt designed especially for him and I’ve donned a woolly hat and refuse to remove it.
Cases are still packed, laundry all yet to do but at least Mr Spike is deliriously happy. Has not stopped purring loudly since we picked him up yesterday. He too is cold having spent a month lounging under his very own heat lamp so last night was a fight for the duvet. The cat won.
Just to excite you all we have counted up and have taken 2500 pictures plus a load more on the video camera and hours of footage. Mr and Mrs Lucky have already foolishly said they would love to see them all. We estimate that will mean spending at least a couple of months staying in Tyddyn to get through them all ( tee hee).
So we are now waiting for Spring with bated breath and looking forward to Christmas Day in March with the Finks. We plan to get all festive!!!
The goal for the next few weeks is to ensure we have stuff planned in for weekends to look forward too. Suggestions on a postcard please…first goal is to rewatch ALL the LOTR films to see the scenery again. We started last night, only another two and a half films to get through- extended versions too so hours and hours and hours.
[Posted from Mrs Foggs super cool iphone]
NZ rocks, as you can tell we are so glad to be back in the UK where the big bright warm ball in the sky is but a thing of fairy tales.
Oh well Mrs Fogg, better plan another trip fast!
Back to the UK here.
After a wobbly start; delayed in Christchurch for 40 minutes, rushed to Auckland and left in a passport control queue for an age with just 3 controllers and the gate closing for the LA flight, we eventually touched down at LA 11.12am NZ time (Sat 18 Feb), 2.12pm LA time (Fri 17 Feb), some 21 hours before we set off (gotta love time travelling).
So we will be back onboard the plane at 4pm LA time heading back to the COLD.
Have we missed the snow?
Taking my hat off to Mrs Fogg for planning and arranging a superb last 4 weeks 6231 miles from here.
Bags all checked in, Mrs Fogg much lighter on her itinery paperwork (I’m sure the wine and food may have replaced a little of that weight).
So the bags are off to Heathrow, are we?Chexk in 27 hours and see.
Will they won’t they be on a plane from here.
Now it’s a 2 hour drive to Christchurch Airport, dump the car and fly to Auckland, then LA, then Heathrow, then Manchester. See y’all in 27 hours. We set off at 8.30pm on Fri 17 Feb and land into London at 7.30am Saturday after going across the International Date Line. We is Time Travellers, We is! Well apart from the fact that the Christchurch to Auckland flight is showing as cancelled, uh oh trapped here we hope
Leaving Paradise here.
At midnight last night we watched our last NZ star show which was simply amazing, seeing the shooting stars, satellites and galaxies.
One more day left to get to Christchurch airport and enjoy the glorious clear skies with 20plus degrees of heat.
Our last NZ Breakfast was here.
These are the type of views in this world that make you simply stop and wonder for a few minutes and then the silence is broken as a coach turns up off loading a group of camera clicking Japanese who manage to drown out the cicadas or worse still our cousins across the pond complete with name badges stood there for a fraction of a second before proclaiming it’s ok but not as big or pretty as one back home.
Personally I enjoy the silence, no distractions and the chance to simply look, enjoy and not have to think about anything.
More wine anyone?
A little soul searching from here.
Even the geek there was quite good in a D-Reem type of fashion. They are even doing Southern Lights viewing tonight, but this is a two hour drive from our last night, so we missed the opportunity.
Worth visiting if you are ever down here.