We’re in New Zealand! It’s wonderful to be in my mother’s homeland. We’d been planning to move around a lot once we got here until we found a house to rent, moving week to week, with the hopeful destination of Wellington where we’d settle into a rental, but we got locked down eight days after we got out of MIQ (the quarantine hotel where we spent 14 days when we arrived).
Of course, we got locked down in heaven. Just south of Russell, we ended up in a house on the Bay of Islands, and it’s been magical. We’re both working full time, of course, so that’s worked out well, as we haven’t been allowed to do much else as we stay indoors!
While we were at level 4, we took our one walk a day. At level 3, we were allowed to take out the kayaks! Excellent, exciting exercise! We enter level 2 tonight, which means we can get on the road again soon on our way to Wellington! (We’ve found a darling rental that we’re so interested in — it’s lovely and would come with the bonus that the people moving out are leaving the country, and we could buy their furniture from them! Since we have none, how ideal would that be? Please cross your fingers for us – it looks like an ideal place for a writer to be settled.)
I’m not blogging much, but I wanted to make sure that if you want to see lots more pics of our journey, you can go to Instgram or Facebook, where I’m trying to cross-post pics and videos of our adventure at both places.
We’re so lucky, and so grateful, and so excited to be starting our new life here.
Best wishes and much joy in your new home!
Whoa! Goodreads brought me here – I used to read your knitting blog ages ago and I think we have some friends-of-friends on FB. Anyway, I recall reading along when your first 1-2 books getting published, and now I click on the Books page here and wowee! So prolific! Really impressive!
Congratulations on all the successes!
Aw, thanks so much, Michelle! 🙂
I hope the possible apt in Wellington and the possibility of furniture already there is a success. What beautiful places you are seeing. Love the house at Russell. Hope you will be near the ocean. At least you won’t have to watch the tide for going in and out. Best of luck! ❤️❤️
So amazing! Have been out of touch with all things knitting since I’ve had a few more health issues. But I’m crawling back to it, and just bought your updated version of your first book! I’m so happy for you both and look forward to seeing more of what has happened since September! All good things I hope!
How are you finding Wellington? Have you discovered Stitch and Bitch at the Southern Cross Pub in the CBD? Monday nights?
Haven’t been yet but planning on it! Just waiting for the cases to die down a bit. 🙂 Thanks, Rosie! We love it here…