Seeing as New Zealand's borders are theoretically tighter than frog's bum we decided on another tour of a different part (for me) of the South Island.
Mrs Hat left a few days earlier to spend some time with her 'family', lovely people with whom she grew up during school.
So, we flew from Auckland to Christchurch and we still had to wear masks in the plane, but not on the return flight as Auckland was given the all-clear to synch with the rest of the country.
We like mapping out our trips a bit, which looks something like this - we call it 'primitive art'.
In actuality it was more like:
So, really it was just a small part of the south island, from Christchurch to Kaikoura to Blenheim to Nelson and the Abel Tasman national Park for some decent hiking.
These are the planes for most internal flights
A 'splash' of NZ humour
Slightly cramped for taller people . . . and for Skidmark specifically - sorry to disappoint you, there is only one class of travel and even if there were a C-Class I'd still not use it.
More to come . . .