The 3rd of Feb. is my birthday and what a great day it was! On the 2nd my parents arrived in Sydney and so we got to celebrate my birthday together. Of course that was the greatest gift already! I had an amazing breakfast at their hotel, the waiters even made me a...
We drove our van to its storage space for the next 2 weeks and had an Uber drop us off at Sydney Harbour where a massive ship lay waiting for us. The Ovation of the Seas is the biggest ship I’ve been on, as this is my 6th cruise with Royal Caribbean. (Yup I...
Unfortunately on our first two sea days the weather wasn’t really in our favor, we had quite a lot of rain and clouds so we enjoyed the warmth of the solarium and the coolness of its pina coladas. Our first port of call was Bay of Islands, where we were being...
Our bedroom view! Imagine waking up, opening your bedroom curtains and seeing this. That’s exactly what happened in our second port of call, Auckland. We woke up to this! As you can see we were anchored away from the shore again. So tenders, our lifeboats,...
From the moment I knew we were going to be in New Zealand (and my husband informed me that the world of LOTR was going to very near) we knew we had to go on an adventure 😉 For those of you that have absolutely no clue what this first sentence was about, let me give...
