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Homeward Bound

Greetings from 40000ft

All too soon, we are on our way home from our adventures in New Zealand.

We finished our whistle stop tour back in Auckland, after travelling by train up through the North Island on Friday. It's been on our to do list for a while... and didn't disappoint, especially as we got to see snow-capped volcanoes.

 
It rained as we passed through Hamilton - pretty much the only clouds we have since the day we arrived - but the sun was shining again by the time we reached our final destination, a lovely apartment in the suburb of Ponsonby. The tricky journey through Friday-night traffic was worth it for the views...


Saturday was an early start as we made our way up to Western Springs Park for one more internation parkrunning adventure - 8am starts in the summer in NZ. It was a twisty course with 3 laps of the lake, with a couple of sneaky little uphill thrown in. But it was a good run and I managed to go a few seconds faster than last week in Tauranga.


We spent the rest of Saturday walking on the beach and climbing volcanoes over in Devenport, another Auckland suburd. The (long since extinct) volcanoes were just a bit smaller than the ones we had seen from the train on Friday but gave brilliant views of the whole city... it was definitely easy to see why Auckland is known as the city of sails.


A glass of wine and a cheese board whilst overlooking downtown Queen Street brought an end to our adventures, although there was just time for one more round of mini golf before heading to the airport.


Two weeks of November sunshine has definitely agreed with me... lots of inspiration for running, writing and many more travel adventures.

I'm just hoping it won't be too cold when we land in Manchester on Monday.
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