I’m home. In New Zealand. My new home until the cyclone season in the South Pacific is over and it’s time to head back to the tropics. We made landfall here in Auckland after an eight day sail from Tonga, leaving coral gardens and deserted beaches behind for the largest marina in the southern hemisphere. With over 2,000 boats moored right in the middle of the ‘City of Sails’, Westhaven Marina offers a very different life. We have not even considered swimming in the cold ocean or lighting a bonfire ashore, but we have been able to eat sushi, rent a car and go to a grocery store with a shopping list rather than be limited by whatever the latest supply ship brought. I’ll be able to buy parts for Saoirse, get a professional to attend to my somewhat funky hairstyle, update my wardrobe and maybe even catch a movie at a local cinema. To some extent, I’m back in the ‘real world’, in an environment that I’m used to. But geographically I am as far as you can get from the Sweden that I come from. Heck, they have penguins, albatross and a scenery from Lord of the Rings here (or maybe it’s the other way around). I really can’t believe I get to live in New Zealand for the next six moths. Honey, I’m home!
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So Tomas – finally I tracked you down! At least now I know why the Swedish Post Office returned your Christmas card – all be it in April!
Fascinating to see what you have been up to. I’ve only read a few blog entries so far, so I’ve plenty to catch up on.
I do hope you have a great Christmas – it looks like you’ll be the first of most of us to celebrate New Year, so enjoy that too.
Good luck with the rest of the trip.
All the best,
Martin T.
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Hi there Martin. So cool to hear from you. And yes I will see 2024 before most of the world. I’m guessing you are still on the States. But where? New England or Texas? All the best. Tomas
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