Sal and I take a break and drive around North Island with no particular itinerary nor time constraints. Been a pretty busy year, and we could do with a break. Just arrived in Auckland, stayhing in a lovely AirBNB place in Ponsonby, looking forward to tomorrow.
Inflight entertainment – Virgin wifi on my iPad mini and Bose noise cancelling earbuds.  Way to go.

Decent breakfast after the pitiful Virgin offering. The packet at the top is my sushi lunch for the Air NZ flight. In the good old days they fed you on airplanes. Not any more.

Gandalfs own aeroplane. Gosh.