Kia ora tatou, konichiwa, bonjour, hola. We're back home and, as my friend Mindi said on the weekend, it is all a bit "Good Life". Remember that wonderful show from the 70s? We have sealed it with 4 bantams, newly installed in the glasshouse, who are being very cute.
We have been back almost a month. In some ways it has flown, in other ways it seems like aeons ago that we were transiting in Narita Airport for our final longhaul leg of the trip. AirNZ is fabulous, btw - we have flown many airlines in the last six months and our last flight was the best (barring business class Lufthansa Toronto to Frankfurt of course!).
We eased our way back in with a few days at my brother Russell's, while he was in Australia and our (wonderful) tenants were moving out. We wandered around town in the searing hot sun like new tourists - it was quite an odd feeling. We bought kimchi (which we ate every day in Korea) and rediscovered an excellent flat white -something that we only got close to twice in Europe - Berlin and Rome. Now we've been back in our lovely home for 3 weeks o so. We are still kind of camping, due to a mix up with a friend who by mistake took the children's mattresses and a general reluctance to put our bed up - we are sleeping Korean style!
Only what we immediately need has been unpacked - we just haven't been able to face the rest! The children are delighted with school and kindy.
So we are poor but happy. We are so much richer for our experiences on the trip. The reconnections we made, the new friends we found and the places, food and atmospheres we fell in love with. And it is good to be back, so that is perfect. We are enjoying reconnecting bit by bit with our people here, on many fronts.
Work wise we are Espresso Rescuing - many big events coming up - and looking at how we will expand / extend the business to keep me out of an office as long as possible. And we are being a family, doing quiet things and making hay while the sun shines.
Not much news as such but all is well on the home front.
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And once you get the coffee cart/biz up and running let us know and I can start to promote it with the blogs (wellingtonista particularly)
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