• Coffee, caravan and cracking tickets

    February 6, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Today started off with bringing the caravan up to ours and one last final spruce up in preparation for 2 viewings.
    Next it was off to the Kaik for coffee with Jenny and Raymonda- this was special because they live in the A frame house I have looked at longingly for years. Today I got to go inside! It didn’t disappoint and the mesmerising sound of the sea at the kaik, just a stones throw away was breathtaking.
    Sadly on the 5 mins home we had to pass a fatal crash at the Moeraki Village turn off- v sobering about how quickly life can change and ramming home how trivial things r just that. Many peoples lives changed in that moment of the crash- v sad.
    Next it was home for the first viewing of the caravan. To cut a long story short the first couple were delightful, also belonged to the lymphoma club with mike currently undergoing treatment, and we were more than happy when we had to contact the second viewer to say it had been sold.
    The caravan is now in Chch with its new owners that will hopefully have many happy times/ memories in it.
    By now it was 3pm and too late and too wet to start work outside so off to Mary’s we went for more trip planning.
    By 6pm I had managed to book tickets to Easter Island for half of the expected price by using the Chilean website- only issue was the whole booking process was done in Spanish which I do not speak, the internet cut out at the payment page, after reinserting all details (passport numbers, dates, the lot), it wouldn’t accept the first payment method accepted, many, many more pages in Spanish I managed to book using my credit card.... only for the confirmation page to come up blank!! WTF!! Finally more than an hour later I think we r all good to go!! Super excited.... if the booking is as google translate says it is!!
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