We are being picked up at eight so set the alarm for six to give us time for breakfast.\u00a0 You never know if there is going to be a queue or not, however no queue and a nice relaxed breakfast.\u00a0 The down side was that because the turnover was not as quick some of the food had this sitting around too long texture.\u00a0 You might think I was never happy but you have to have standards.<\/p>\n
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We are not really looking forward to the twenty-six hour trip but now looking forward to being home.\u00a0 We are out the airport by 8:30 and head almost straight through booking in and immigration.\u00a0\u00a0 Can\u2019t get into the lounge yet so find a Jazz caf\u00e9 with a seat by the window and have a not bad coffee. \u00a0\u00a0This time we get to walk directly onto the plane but we are a bit late getting away.\u00a0 The plane is a Boeing 777-300 and not a heap of leg room.\u00a0 Mostly sat back and watched movies and read my book for the next 14 hours.\u00a0 I tried to sleep at one stage but it didn\u2019t work. \u00a0\u00a0I sat in an aisle seat and was continually getting knocked around by people in the aisle or the trolley which I reckon managed to hit me every time. We arrived in Sydney at 6:45, just as the sun was rising.\u00a0 Sydney does not have much in the departure lounge so it was coffee and read my book.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have any Aussie dollars so even the coffee was expensive but it wasn\u2019t bad.\u00a0 Our plane was late arriving so we were about three quarters of an hour late getting away but at least the Air New Zealand plane was their latest Airbus 320 and probably nicer than all the other planes we had been on.\u00a0 It was a quick trip across the Tasman and we landed at 3:30, half an hour late, straight through customs to where Bob was meeting \u00a0us.\u00a0 Bit of a hassle getting through Wellington traffic but not even close to what we had in Paris and we were home by five.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>A very big thanks to everyone that looked after us and made our trip so enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are being picked up at eight so set the alarm for six to give us time for breakfast.\u00a0 You never know if there is going to be a queue or not, however no queue and a nice relaxed breakfast.\u00a0 The down side was that because the turnover was not as quick some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}