{"id":1065,"date":"2011-04-15T05:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2011\/04\/15\/day-one-of-our-holidays\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:53","slug":"day-one-of-our-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Day One of our Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s airport day. Our car broke down. Why does this always happen on airport day?<\/p>\n

Halfway over the hill we overtook a clapped out campervan when our car stopped. I’m blaming Mike for not getting it serviced and for his views on speed limiting cars to 100km\/hr. Dora obviously took offence (not that she can do more that 100 km\/hr anyway but probably just a car alliance thing)<\/p>\n

We managed to get Dora going again and crawled the rest of the trip behind the smelly old camper. We have Lord of the Rings to thank for this.<\/p>\n

We decided to catch the bus from Thames ‘cos nobody likes to do the airport run. Dad dropped us off after putting our car into storage. (Thanks Dad!)<\/p>\n

The bus was chocker full of BO ridden people and there were no seats left for us. With a bit of a defrag we managed to free up some space so we could sit together.<\/p>\n

Mike read his book:<\/p>\n

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We had to wait for a change of bus at Manukau. Manukau is a multicultural experience. It’s like all the foreigners fly into Auckland and don’t get any further than Manukau before deciding to settle there.<\/p>\n

Overall the public bus experience wasn’t too bad and we got to sightsee all the nice suburbs of South Auckland. The only downside is getting to the airport 8 hours early. Oh well – guess we will just have to sit in the Koru club and drink free beer.<\/p>\n

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