Moving On

Today we started our return to he real world with the voyage on the Pride of Cherbourg - renamed with a Maori name, but still registered in Portsmouth - to the North Island.

The departure from the South Islands through the sounds of the Marlborough Strait were not as impressive to those of us who had experienced a trip 'Doon the watter' as to less experienced travellers, but the vessel was larger and the channels were narrower, so that it has to be conceded that the NZ experience was more dramatic.  Not surprisingly, the weather was better as well!