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Scandinavian Adventure

An opportunity to enjoy some endless summer days across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Estonia. Read more
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    🇳🇿 Māngere-Ōtāhuhu, New Zealand

    Finally on our way

    Yesterday in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Early wake up for us, I think it may have been our bodies way of starting to reset the body clock. Gerard picked us up nice and early as expected. It was exciting to receive all three boarding passes and hand over our luggage. Always hopeful the bags will be waiting for us in Copenhagen.

    Auckland was foggy this morning so we were warned of a potential delay, which made us grateful for the 7 hour window between flights today. Plane was about 30 mins late departing due to a slight delay on the previous flight and a technical check.

    We landed in Auckland at midday and with no luggage to collect we decided to walk across to international and then out to the shops outside the airport. Catherine came and joined us for lunch at Kawa which was delicious. We elected to walk back to the international terminal in the sun. We had 3 hours in the lounge before we boarded the plane.

    NZ is a very small world as my second cousin and his wife walked into Koru and are on the same flight to Beijing. On the plane now and Regan is in love with his slippers. Next stop Beijing.
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  • Getting ready

    June 12 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    A weird day with the excitement of the trip but also the realisation for me that it was my last day at Foodstuffs. I arrived there for 6 weeks and left after 22 months. It was a great start with a team breakfast and then Millpond bought morning tea. As always sad to leave lovely people at the end of the day.

    Regan had a super busy week trying to impart enough information to the poor person who is covering for him for the month. I had yet another quick shop for trip items, honestly you would think China and Sweden do not have shops.

    Our lovely friends/neighbours cooked us dinner which was wonderful and made our final clean up so easy. Then the final pack and we are well under our 71 kilos each weight limit. We are tracking at 45kg in total. So a spare 97kgs for shopping 👏👏👏

    Our pick up tomorrow is 8am with our flight to Auckland leaving at 10:10am. We have a 7 hour wait till our Beijing flight. We are catching up with a friend in the afternoon for coffee and a late lunch. Off to bed shortly to try and sleep.
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    Trip start
    June 13, 2026