Today is the start of the Famous Five Adventures. As with all adventures that are seeking out a white Christmas from New Zealand it started at the airport. While airports are the portal to the world they are also a giant waiting place. People waiting to go home, people waiting to explore the world, people waiting for loved ones arrive but everyone is waiting for something.
As I'm writing this I'm also waiting. We are on our third flight and final flight on route to Zurich. So I'm waiting to touch down to start our adventures around Europe and open our eyes to a natural environment and depth of history that I don't think we can fully comprehend coming from a young country in the South Pacific where snow at Christmas is a thing of story books.
How have we got to this waiting place where we counting down the final four hours of our outward journey. This morning (Sunday 18th December) we left Christchurch after a great wedding for the 'J-Team' to make the trip back to Auckland to join the remainding two members of the Famous Five. We departed Auckland Airport at 3pm to start the journey to Bangkok. 12hrs later we arrive greeted by the bright lights that you would expect from a city of this size. After 2hrs of sleeping in the departure lounge we wandered blurry eye on to our final flight on this leg of the journey. At which point I can't remember to much more as I was sleep before take off. I now feel ready for this adventure to start but until we land in Zurich it is just a matter of waiting.
Waiting for the adventure to start, waiting to walk the Christmas markets, waiting to see the snow fall, waiting for new experiences to unfold.
BT
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