We flew from Luxor to London and spent a week visiting Bri & Ross. We then flew to Sweden for 10 days with Sam Bella & the kids. 8 days on the beach in Phuket just relaxing very cheap, very hot and great swimming. A 10 day stopover in Melbourne with Zach, visiting family out East and then back to NZ. Was great to see everyone and Sweden was certainly excited for the sun and summer, starting celebrations early May!
It was just unaffordable staying in Europe & UK even to escape the NZ winter.
We arrived back in Auckland late May and have been blessed by very generous people giving us a car & accommodation for the first 2 weeks before we secured 2 housesits. One dog & housesit in Red Beach for 8 weeks and one dog & housesit in Orewa for 12 weeks.