Across the Tasman Sea
Two months on. We are still here – flying out of New Zealand after a lovely five weeks travelling around both Islands. One big change during this time – Ian has entered his 7 th decade giving us lots of excuses to indulge! Not that you two need any excuses I can imagine you thinking! We left you as we arrived into Perth, with Kieran, Alasdair, Tom and Lucy and partners flying in to meet us for Christmas and New Year. Standing waiting in the arrival hall (which Ian did 3 times in 24 hours), there was a lovely message on the doors where we stood observing many ‘Love Actuallyesque’ reunions. “The best Christmas present is about to walk through these doors”. So true! I had booked the seven of them into the historic old prison in Fremantle (now a YHA albeit with double en-suite rooms) while we had a rather swanky one-bed loft style apartment down the road in South Freo. This enabled us to cater Christmas lunch (complete with ...