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.
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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Mt Egmont seen from the King Edward Park playing fields in Stratford
The Stratford Glockenspeil in Taranaki
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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