We arrived back yesterday after a month in New Zealand, a month of mixed results; the joy of meeting up with our family and the dubious frustration of realising that no one deals with one’s possessions and business matters like we ourselves. I was absolutely delighted to see what fine young people our older grandchildren have grown into and delighted to find that our much younger grandchildren returned our embraces warmly and openly despite our absence during these very formative years. Just as we did during our last trip back, we caught winter chills and have come back in less healthy order than we left a month ago. We discovered that flying Air Argentina was not the horror that our children had suggested it might be, although the flights both ways were very delayed. In fact yesterday we had the good fortune to be upgraded to Business Class, a first for us who have always subjected ourselves to Cattle Class. On return to this, the Sydney Tourist Park, we found our land cruiser and caravan as we had left them and as Chris turned the ignition, the engine sprang to life, eager to be once more en route.
Today there have been showers of rain and apart from driving up to the
shopping centre at Miranda to re-provision our food stores, we have done little
but rest indoors and spend the afternoon in front of The Box observing the very
interesting parliamentary debate regarding Border Security, being pressed into
urgency as yet another boat load of refugees fight for their lives in the high
seas somewhere to the north of this country, even now as I type this.
Today we have also, to our credit given that we had absolutely no plan
as we touched down yesterday, set out a rough itinerary for the immediate weeks
ahead and an even rougher plan of how we see our geographical ramblings during
the months up to next Christmas when we will yet again head back to New Zealand
for another visit. Tomorrow we will cross this vast city, heading north, back
along highways earlier last year.
It is so exciting to be back here in Australia!
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