Ok, the plan was straightforward, fly from Darwin to Syndey overnight and then connect to a flight to Auckland. We turned up at Darwin a couple of hours early actually about 6 and then discovered the airport was effectively closed until 90 mins before the flight, so we waited patiently. Next we flew which was pleasant, arrived in Sydney on time, but we still had a pretty tight connection. We are just out of the transfer lounge when Vicky says that our plane is on final call. So we run to a gate right over the other side of the airport, about 10mins of really sprinting only to find the plane has gone by the time we get there. Fortunately I check and find out it is the wrong plane, ours is right back at the part of the airport we have just left, oh yes and now it is final boarding! So, another sprint and we barely got on our flight in time. Not pleasant to sit down dripping with sweat at 7am in the morning. Ok so the flight went wrong but surely plain sailing from then on... Yes, you guessed Lee's luggage went missing with no idea when we would get it back. Laughing by now we headed over to the hire company and picked up our campervan beast. After getting used to it, after some embarrassing stalls in the middle of a busy road with the van just not starting until you took the key out and tried again, we actually began to enjoy it again. Stayed in Orewa just out side Auckland for our first night and enjoyed some home cooking for the first time in a couple of months.
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