This is the blog of a Norwegian (Marianne, aka 'M') who moved to Australia in 2007 to be with Roger (aka R) and feels lucky to have escaped a comparatively communistic country with ridiculous weather!

We arrived home from NZ Friday night, after leaving Auckland at 2 pm and going via Sydney. R got special treatment at all 3 airports because he tore his calf muscle in Rotorua Wednesday evening, so he got to be pushed around in a wheel chair and we were pre-boarded:)

NZ is nice, it's a lot like Australia, but at the same time tries to be European. It is kind of cute:) And they are extremely nationalistic, everywhere you go there are ferns (famous symbol for NZ) kiwi birds and sheep jokes.

They also have very friendly people. Every store we went into where there was a New Zealander working (which weren't a lot because they have a huge immigrant population) they were always making jokes and chatting and going out of their way to be helpful. It was cool.

We will definitely go back one day, and then we will prolly not stay in one place, but hire a car and drive through the country and find a hotel wherever we feel like staying for the night...

Photos have been posted here.