Category: Travel

Auckland.  No need for an early start. Met in foyer around 8:30. Then a walk out to Ponsonby for the Blue Bean Cafe which had been recommended by one of the runners at Soul last night. A non-de script looking cafe with a lot of restaurant out the back. A gelato/ice creamery and cafe at…

Christchurch to Auckland. Beat the alarm just this am and did some life admin, then for a walk to find a building with two copper domes we could see from room 406 yesterday. It was 7 degrees when we woke but 11degrees when I walked and the sun soon warmed it up.Found my building (what…

Today this sh!t gets serious. Today we go international!!! Emirates EK412 BUSINESS CLASS to Christchurch. Almost asleep last night when something told me I’d set the alarm for 6:40 NOT 5:40 – I was right, and quickly corrected that. Bronwyn had hers set for 6:30 and of course it didn’t go off.Anyway we hit the…

Bron and Suzie awake and up earlier for a walk. Time to pack before our pretty awesome breakfast at Conservatory downstairs at Crown. Lots of choices and too many tastes mean we are full – again!!! Whilst at breaky we got the first notification of flight delayed by 40min – Virgin Melbourne to Sydney. No…

Melbourne: Lying in bed after a big Day 1 of Aunty Suzie’s Whirlwind 75th Birthday extravaganza. Here’s a brief rundown and some more pics of the day ( arvo/evening really) at Crown Towers. We checked in, cracked a bottle of champers, had a swim, then returned to our rooms and found we had a leaking…

PREFACE. Emails started flying from Cousin Hayley and Uncle Keith in late September. Aunty Sue was oblivious as she was traipsing around the ‘Stans’ at the time. Hayley and Keith were plotting an experience for Suzie (Aunty,) Hayley (Cousin,) Bronwyn (Sister) and I to mark Suzie’s 75th year. (January was proposed and locked in as…