And we're off, Europe 2024

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And we’re off. 19th of April 2024. 

Koru lounge for a wine before our first of 3 flights today Wellington Auckland. First confession, we checked in our carry on bags. Second confession, mine weighed 10kg’s and Steve’s weighed 8kg’s - hopefully those extra kg’s are taken up with gifts to lavish on Karen and Paul so we’ll be under before we head back - we think AirNZ is the only airline we’re travelling who limits you to 7kg carry on. 

Anyway. Welcome to our blog. Who knew we used to blog, at some stage we moved away from this and started sending emails but with so many of you asking for photos I decided to blog this trip. Also gives me something to do on travel days, which there are many of - trains, planes and ferries. 

It’s been fun reading our UK 2016 travels. Sadly that was the last time we saw Mary who lost her battle with brain cancer earlier this year. We had such a lovely time in York with Don visiting Lawrence, Mary and Aimee. 


Which leads me to why we are here. Life is short so lets just get on with doing things we love, with the people we love. In the last 12 months we have starting losing friends, Jeremy Steve’s best mate since childhood, then Kathryn tragically in an accident and Mary as I mentioned above. All leading to lots of discussions about travel, hobbies, working less and for one of us maybe even retirement in a couple of years (clearly not me). 


So we’re off for 4 weeks. London / Milton Keynes first, then Italy to Cinque Terre and Rome, before flying off to the Greek Islands - Santorini, Naxos, Paros, Mykonos and Tinos. Back to London / Milton Keynes to fly home! Eek. 

For anyone new to my style of blogging you should expect to see lots of pics of Steve walking ahead of me, of Karen, Libby and I drinking, Paul shaming us by exercising and of beautiful views. Unlike my consistently structured work blogs, this will be chaos. Welcome to the ride.You can probably tell I am terrible at editing on this platform, loving sqaurespace for work - but this is free and already existed so here we are. Next post Monday NZ time. Vic xoxo

Check out how small our bags are!


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  1. Paul D22 April 2024 at 13:25

    Happy travels. Better be starting at the right end of the Cinque Terre or you'll have to walk it backwards. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/350254426/one-worlds-most-famous-hiking-trails-be-one-way-only

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    1. Vic22 April 2024 at 19:55

      Oh dear thanks for this will read and plan accordingly - eek.

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