Day 1: Brisvegas to Auckland

Welcome to Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud....

For our first ever family adventure away from Australia, we have flown to New Zealand north island for the school holidays.

We will be spending 2 weeks touring around trying to spot Hobbits and any and all LOTR related scenery we can.

We left home this morning at 8am via a Didi trip to the international airport for an 11.35am flight that ended up being almost but not quite on time.

A 3-ish hour flight later, we navigated a fast and extremely smooth transit through passport control, baggage collection, ATM money retrieval, hire car collection and 10km drive to our (very cheap and cheerful) overnight accommodation, getting here about 7pm (3 hours ahead of Qld).

After scoping out the rooms (the place is kind of like a boarding house), we located a local Indian takeaway and Cormac ate his body weight in food.

We are now back in our room, chillaxing and hoping the leftovers are still in the communal fridge in the morning, as that will be our breakfast.

All in all a very smooth start to our Hobbit Holiday....Read more