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Lazy Days
I had three more weeks left in New Zealand but the weather was rubbish and I was spending too much money so I called the travel agent to see if they could bring my flights forward. The only flight they had was the next afternoon!! I wasn't too far from Auckland so booked it, stayed up until the wee hours booking hostels and packing. The next …
Cookin' up a Chill Out
So it was on to another Air New Zealand flight to take us across the Pacific to Rarotonga in The Cook Islands. Strangely we left Auckland on the 14th of January, and arrived 4 hours later on the 13th of January as we'd either a) crossed the international date line en route, or b) our plane was equipped with a Flux Capacitor and we surpassed 88mph …
Kia Orana!
The journey from Auckland to the Cook Islands is not long but you cross the International Date Line, meaning that I left New Zealand on the 6th April and arrived at my destination on the 5th. Crazy! The Cook Islands comprise fifteen islands in two groups scattered over two million
square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean: that's a similar area …
Another day in Paradise (Phil Collins)
This blog post should come with a governmental health warning. This entry contains scenes of an exotic nature and may not be not be suitable for those of an envious or cold disposition. I know it's Baltic in the UK so you may want to stop reading now. No? Well you have been warned.
The Cook islands are a sprinkling of 15 paradise islands …
Paradise Lost and Found
On my last night on Aitutaki, Tony suggested that I change my flight and stay on the island instead of returning to "cold, rainy Raro, with lots of people and traffic". Tempting as it was, the notion of Rarotonga as a busy metropolis still seemed rather comical to me. So off I went again in the tiny airplane, back to bustling Raro. But when I got …
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