done & dusted

New Zealand 2020, some interesting bits:

Three of us are booked to walk the Routeburn. One pulls out due to lack of fitness. The Track is flooded, washed away, the entire walk is cancelled. We (two) spend the time in Queenstown.

Queenstown, Arrowtown, Wanaka, Glenorchy... all good fun, lots of beautiful scenery. The luge is my highlight. All seems a bit quieter than I expect. I return the rental car a day late -- because I messed up the booking dates.

A possible highlight of the fly-then-drive to Rotorua is lunch at The Pink Pig. It's a truck stop. Painted all-over bright pink.

We arrive at Rotorua a day earlier than expected -- I had messed up the motel booking.

We're here for the Walking Festival, three days' walking. An evening walk in the forest, next day it's 10km through forest, then 10km through town, all interesting. Coronavirus is a looming threat, we avoid crowds and walk well to the back of the Festival walkers. That's our excuse, anyway :-)

Auckland, the highlight would have been Book of Mormon -- except that it is cancelled from the day before we arrive. The city is dead, very few people. We flee the plague and fly home a day early.

To arrive in Perth. Just our plane passengers arriving, no plane leaving, very quiet. (A week later: the flight we were on is, this week, cancelled.)

We can't find the car. Which we had left parked... at the other terminal. Home. To 14 days self isolation.

A... memorable... holiday. Good fun but... memorable :-)

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Well, that is the NZ holiday, over. Phew! Now back to the other blog theme. Perhaps with some more general stuff because (a) there's nothing interesting currently happening and (b) it's getting hard to tell cancer & cancer drug reactions from effects of age...

I find that I'm rather blasé about the threat of coronavirus. I suspect that it is due to already having a serious health problem: all things are relative. I believe that the coronavirus threat is good for Deb: it takes her mind off worrying about me. Which is very good :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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"Don't waste your time looking back on what you have lost. Move on, life is not meant to be travelled backwards."

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