| 2015 01 01 New Zealand, Diamond Harbor and Hanmer Springs |
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| Written by Andrew Stevenson | ||||
 
Now you see her, now you don't. In the playground around the corner from their grandparents in Christchurch. We arrive in Auckland at 5.30 am after three long flights from Bermuda but we hit the ground running and just kept going until 9 pm that night
  We walked up Mt Hubert in the Port Hills and in Diamond Harbor eating icecream beside a copy of the fighter their paternal grandfather flew
  Climbing Mt Isobel in Hanmer Springs
  The long haul to the very top. Elsa and I wait but it's not long before Somers and Annabel arrive
  Mandatory photo of us at the top but getting everyone to look the same way isn't easy. Then the long, long walk back down
  Somers, tired and dejected on the way back down but all is forgiven when we get back just in time for the hot pools and a couple of quick tides down the slides
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