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Today
is the 131st day anniversary (daiversary?) of me leaving
NZ. (Don't trust my maths too much tho...) Well, coincidentally 131 is one of the best numbers
in the world so it seems like a good moment to finally do my New
Zealand-summary-entry ready for future new travelly entries!
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| Hello 2014 from NZ :) |
As
I did predict, I was a bit of a mess after leaving NZ, therefore
producing no final blog entry. Now, over four months afterwards, the
whole trip seems like such a dream. I still have my world map on the
wall, and my mind is quadruple-boggled looking at where I am now and
where I was last Christmas. I mean, a few weeks back I had an 11h-trip
back from Lille, France, to Aberystwyth, Wales. The tip of my
forefinger covers that distance on my map. While Aberystwyth to
Auckland covers fourty-four forefinger tips (yes I just checked), and
even that is flying bird-eye.
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| Yep still there |
It
was a SICK experience. (here
“sick” means “insanely overwhelmingly crazy awesome”, just for any elderly people reading) So,
as a nice conclusion to my NZ adventure-bloggings, here is my very not-comprehensive (what's the opposite of comprehensive?) list of my top 5 favourite NZ mos:
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HIGHLIGHTS OF NZ - TOP 5 EDITION
5th
PLACE: Skywalk. Walking around the outer ledge at the top of Auckland sky tower. A bit like bungee jumping - after you accept the worst that can happen is a painful death, you suddenly realise there's no sense in being afraid. Maybe. It was awesome though. And you had more time to take in the views than if you'd done bungee jumping. That's a good thing. I think.
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| Naah just kidding obviously I am a natural (absolutely TERRIFIED in this pic just btw) |
4th
PLACE: Dolphin-watching! Something I'd never been super passionate
about, but sat at the front of the boat, following a huge... um,
herd? Flock? Nest? School? Maybe even school eh (I know it's a school
of fish... and yesterday while starting my TEFL course I learnt that
it's a school of whales too...)... FOLLOWING A HUGE SCHOOL OF
DOLPHINS. Including an adorable baby. And many dolphin jumps. And even two penguins!! And the
sun was shining. (And I was freezing in CC's huge fuzzy hoodie.)
3rd PLACE: Sheepworld sheepshow. Again, not anything I was TOO excited about – I was excited about feeding baby animals and googoogaagaaing over them, not so much listening to an awkward farmer talking about farming. I WAS SO WRONG. Farming is cool. Especially if you're kiwi and you're sustaining the economy with your very clever and beautiful sheep doggies. AND being able to hold a lamb was not a bad extra either... <3 ____________ <3
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| Sheep dogs getting acquainted with audience |
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| jahskuyquoefiugfjsgyeghoahkuhkud |
2nd
PLACE: This one's difficult... Let's anyhow go with sand dunes. Haha,
there seems to be a pattern here, but ONCE AGAIN nothing I was too
excited about – had a very long day behind us, and I was happy to
see the sand dunes, but not too thrilled about the prospect of
actually having to get out of the car...
But
even after a few steps, let alone climbing to the top of them, it was
an envigorating (that is a word right?) experience. I have never seen
sand dunes before, and these ones came as such as a surprise.
Dreamlike, druglike, whatever, I think I explained it as well as I
could in the blog entry.
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| The dream |
And
finally....
1st
PLACE: The first glimpse of the New Zealand coastline after 30+h of
travelling.
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| First sight of NZ |
Despite
the holiday of a lifetime I had in NZ, my favourite day and blogpost
will have to be
http://nectarinetravel.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/dubai-2-auckland-via-oz.html
SO MUCH OVERWHELMEMENTTTTTTT!!! My first trip outside of Europe. FAR
outside. Such a life dream, fulfilled. I can't immediately think of
another life dream of such high importance levels to have been
fulfilled in my life. AMAZINGGGG.
And finally, can we please have one last moment of silence for the man in window seat 83J who agreed to swap seats with me. It still overwhelms me the amount of times that waves of gratefulness just sweep across my soul.
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| My hero who gave me a window seat for the Dubai-Brisbane flight <3 |
Now
I will content myself with staring at my map, maybe finally getting
round to finishing my scrapbook, and listening to my beloved
NZ-songs, the ones that remind me of NZ, the main one being the funky
version of Lana del Rey's Summertime Sadness.
I
even had a red dress on :P
Ah
those NZ roadtrips. Thank you CC for organising such an amazing time.
And
I am definitely going back. Some day.
Till the next time,
Emmmmzyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PS.
Ok I did google it. Obviously it's a POD of dolphins. And very
clearly I knew that a few months back. My apologies. It's the old
age. : S
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| Just to show where my loyalties lie ;) |
