Welcome to my blog…
For some time now I’ve thought about starting a blog, but wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to write about. Now here’s the opportunity: a six-month visit to New Zealand – land of my husband’s birth, but approximately 20000km away from mine.
After a chaotic few weeks, during which K and I barely slept at all, we succeeded in renting out our home in Scotland, finding a friend to car-sit for us during our absence, and then rent a house in Auckland, and be lent a car for the duration of our stay!
We left Scotland on Tuesday, January 27th for what seemed to be a marathon flight – 7.5h to Dubai, 7.75h in Dubai airport, 7.2h to Singapore, 7.5h to Brisbane, then 3.2h to Auckland. In actual fact, helped greatly by Emirates giving us a suite of rooms in their hotel in Dubai (yay for showers and proper beds to sleep in for a couple of hours), we found the journey worked out very well. We all got pretty much a couple of hours sleep per leg of the journey; the kids coped with it all really well (apart from A’s constant questions); and I arrived feeling far more rested than I have on any of our previous visits.
We stayed two nights with my PIL (parents-in-law) and, with some wonderful help from BIL (I leave you to work out what that one means), we moved in to our new place last Saturday, complete with a basic household of stuff thanks to a lot of hard work on the part of both SIL and MIL! Thank you all!