After another early start it was time to leave Queenstown. Now I’m not the best of flyers as you’ve gathered I don’t like heights, but the views leaving Queenstown were incredible. It’s a bit of precarious airport with mountain ranges round the edges and a lake at the end of the runway, but the conditions were just stunning. See photos below.
Having made it safely to Melbourne, it was time to meet up with Dom. Dom and I have known each other since 2004, when we did an exchange between schools at the tender age of 13/14, we have managed to keep in touch and since that point I made it back to Melbourne on two other occasions once in 2006 and the other in 2010, 15 years ago. I have seen both Dom and Stricko in Europe and the last time was my 1 night mad adventure to Rome in 2023 just after 10 days in South Africa.
I made it out of the airport in record time and Dom was still feeding baby Noah, my new little 3 month old friend 😍. For the first few nights we are staying on Southbank as Stricko is selling shoes at a trade fair. The views were stunning from the apartment.
In the evening we met Stricko and his colleagues and had a lush dinner down by the River. Lamb shoulder with roast potatoes and broccoli 😍😍😍.
With me being in my new time zone by 9pm Australia time it was 11pm New Zealand time so I was exhausted! But so glad to be finally back in Australia it’s been too long 😍😍.
Flying Solo 