En route to New Plymouth by Mark Sukhija

By: Mark Sukhija

03 November 2007

View from the flight from Auckland to New Plymouth Today we arrived in Stratford, Taranaki on the North Island of New Zealand to visit friends and family. We flew down to New Plymouth from Auckland on a Bombadier Q300 Air New Zealand flight operated by Air Nelson Ltd.

02 November 2007

The new Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 at Singapore Airport Singapore Airport was a good place to be today. The new Airbus A380 was docked at one of the "F" gates and (understandably) proved to be quite a star attraction after all the publicity that surrounded it's maiden voyage from Singapore to Sydney recently. What's incredible about the A380 is the sheer size of it. In the foreground of the picture on the right, compare the size of the two airport workers with the size of the A380. See what I mean?

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About Mark Sukhija

Mark Sukhija is a travel and wine blogger, photographer, tourism researcher, hat-touting, white-shirt-wearing, New Zealand fantatic and eclipse chaser. Aside from at least annual visits to New Zealand, Mark has seen eclipses in South Australia (2002), Libya (2006), China (2009) and Queensland (2012). After twelve years in Switzerland, Mark moved back to London in 2012. You can follow Mark on Twitter or Facebook