Booking the Flights

Last week’s goal was to book flights from somewhere close by (perhaps Frankfurt) to Auckland, with a week’s stopover before heading on to Christchurch and returning to Frankfurt from there. Continue reading

Travel Diaries

“My Trip” Diary 1974-1978

For a long, long time, I have kept travel diaries. The oldest one still in my possession is a dedicated travel pocket diary (9 cm x 15 cm, 90 leaf, left: cover, “My Trip”; right: excerpt) given to me by my grandmother in 1974 to record the 74/75 two-month New Zealand round tour in. Continue reading

Green Light

Fern

Koru – the fern leaf spiral

The go-ahead for the new adventure came late last week, after a couple of weeks of prelegal danse macabre. Anyhow, it’s there now, and the final preparations can begin in earnest.

For begun they have well before this time last year, when I was originally planning this trip. There have been plans and preparations, and prices to compare and check again. One of the most comprehensive questions covered was that of photography, although that was no longer a question of what camera to take, but rather how to deal with all of the eventualities that hacking the current set of three cameras has brought with it. Continue reading