Greeting from Kiwiland!
Sep. 27th, 2024 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1I'm overseas again! This time for a two-week journey around New Zealand's North Island.
It's really fun, so far. And so very close to Australia that I keep forgetting that I've left my country. (Exceptions: the lack of gumtrees, the astonishing amounts of Te Reo Maori written on all the signs, and the money.) Even the accents aren't giving it away – because New Zealanders are so often in Australia that I'm pretty used to them.
So far, I've landed in Auckland, driven up to the Bay of Islands (a nice, beachy area), and driven back down to Hamilton (a lovely town, with some gorgeous parkland). Tomorrow we go to Second Breakfast at Hobbiton, before spending a week in Rotorua.
It's really nice getting my kids to the age where travelling with them ISN'T just horribly stressful.
It's really fun, so far. And so very close to Australia that I keep forgetting that I've left my country. (Exceptions: the lack of gumtrees, the astonishing amounts of Te Reo Maori written on all the signs, and the money.) Even the accents aren't giving it away – because New Zealanders are so often in Australia that I'm pretty used to them.
So far, I've landed in Auckland, driven up to the Bay of Islands (a nice, beachy area), and driven back down to Hamilton (a lovely town, with some gorgeous parkland). Tomorrow we go to Second Breakfast at Hobbiton, before spending a week in Rotorua.
It's really nice getting my kids to the age where travelling with them ISN'T just horribly stressful.
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Date: 2024-09-27 01:24 pm (UTC)