{"id":13395,"date":"2020-04-13T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:40:41","slug":"round-the-world-new-zealand-days-31-to-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/round-the-world-new-zealand-days-31-to-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Round the World – New Zealand Days 31 to 35"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The next couple of weeks were to prove a strange time. I was supposed to be returning to work but the COVID-19 travel restrictions were starting to bite, and travel to my work place in Iraq had just been stopped. Over the next few days I spent a while with Planey at Warbirds, doing a thorough empty and organise of the interior. I was able to identify quite a quantity of items that would no longer be needed, and packed them up to be sent home rather than flown with me across the Pacific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New friends at Warbirds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While I did this one of the managers from a flying school on the field stopped by to say hello, with his daughter and a couple of other individuals from the school. His daughter had just secured a job with Air New Zealand. She had been following the flight on social media and had wanted to say hello, which was very flattering! It was good fun to chat with them about the flight and their respective flying endeavours in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n