Auckland to Sydney to Perth — 22nd April,2023

 After spending  last night at  the Novotel Hotel at the airport we  left this morning at 5.45am Walked across the road to the terminal to book in for our 8.00am flight on Qantas. Very quiet hardly anyone around. Went up to the lounge to have breaky. We are travelling  business class as we are using up all our Qantas points which covers the whole trip. About three hours flying, and had another breakfast before we landed at Sydney. A couple of hours or so in the Sydney lounge we had lunch. As I am writing this we are winging our way to Perth. A four and an half hour journey and have just been given another lunch on the plane. So much food in one day and just sitting on our backsides.  As we are on the Starboard side of the plane PT  is getting a great view along the route we will be driving on back to Sydney. We are sitting up here saying to each other as we fly over thats that place and so on. We are seeing it all on a beautiful sunny day. Also following the flight sim so know exactly where we are. Seeing it all now we won’t need to drive it. Just kidding can’t wait to get amongst it all. Getting a really good view of it from the air. Now about half way between Sydney and Perth. Will have a break for now and finish off in the Hotel tonight. Back again. Got into Perth a little earlier just after three their time which would have been around  seven NZ time.  As I write it’s coming up to midnight NZ which is four hours ahead of Perth. We are trying hard to stay up as long as we can to try and adjust our body clocks.  I’m not feeling too bad but it’s been a long day but great to be here after planning it for a year. Shops don’t open until 11.00am on Sundays so will go in to sort out a few things tomorrow and get my Oz SIM card. Then come back to our hotel where we are staying for our second night before we pick up our van on Monday and get away on our trip. Very exciting.

We are on the 10th floor of our hotel over looking the Swan River to the beautiful city of Perth. Good to be back here after we spent a week in Perth before we did our Perth to Darwin trip last year.