I have really been enjoying the past few days in Whangarei. I’ve mainly been busy sorting out things like getting my driver’s license and doing media requests. All the people have been so nice to me since I arrived, helping me out with many things, even though most of it I have to do myself anyway of course. Reva’s, a restaurant just down in the Town Basin Marina invited us over for pizza the other night and it was lovely. She has had the restaurant for a lot of years now, and my parents used to eat there! I’ve also met quite a few of my parents’ friends who still live down here and even my mom’s midwife who helped deliver me to the world. They all remember me very well. Of course, I don’t remember them, just from pictures and stories, but it’s still really nice because it make me feel even more connected with this lovely part of the world. Bruno has been out skating pretty much all of the time since there’s a park right across the river. He has already made some nice friends and found work. So, yeah, we are slowly rolling back into normal life. It’s definitely different from traveling and sailing all the time, but taking a bit of a break from big passages for a while and doing some other things feels quite nice too.

Laura