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20th February 2020

AT SEA

New Zealand is the gift that just keeps on giving. Today, we’ve been sailing down the Eastern coastline of the North Island, and after all those weeks at sea, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, disappointed by the almost total lack of interesting wildlife, the waters down this stretch have been a veritable banquet of marine delights. After a wet...

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19th February 2020

AUKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

I feel like all my Christmases and Birthdays have come at once. Not only because of yesterday’s visit to the Hobbiton Film set, which was an extraordinary experience, but I also discovered that I can use my regular phone minutes and data on my EE phone contract when in New Zealand. So I have more access to the internet than...

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18th February 2020

TUARANGA – HOBBITON

Today, we arrived in Tauranga, New Zealand, and the world just got a little bit smaller. I must confess to having been more than a bit excited about this stop, because we were booked to go on an excursion. Not as escorts, for a change, but as bona fide punters. It required us to be up at stupid o’clock (6am)...

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17th February 2020

POETRY READING AND A BIT OF SHAKESPEARE

Today, I had the third class of the three sea-days on our way to our first port on New Zealand, Tauranga, where we are due to arrive tomorrow. It was farewell to a few folks, for whom this mornings class was their last, who will be disembarking in Aukland in two days time. As we approach the end of first...

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16th February 2020

still VERY WINDY

I had another class today – the second in a run of three, as we head towards our first port-of-call in New Zealand. In fact, after today, I only have three more to go before my work is done. Once again, it was very windy out, but at least the top deck was open, so we were out building up...

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