Brides of the sky

I have flown very little. The flights between the UK and NZ, and now a short flight from Auckland to Christchurch. Tobermory’s flown all over the world, but I have now done something in a plane that he has not – a very short commercial flight!

Maybe one day I’ll become a jaded traveller. But for now, there’s something awesome about the aircraft speeding down the runway at Auckland airport – the runway heads directly to the ocean. The plane flings itself into the sky just as it looks like you’re going to run out of ground, earth and sea and sky hurtling past you as you climb.

And New Zealand is astonishing to fly over. It’s not the rolling curves or flat desert that I’ve seen flying into other places – it’s harsh, uncompromising angles of mountain thrust into the air, black shadows and snowcaps, treelines and rock.

It’s bleak but beautiful.

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