Well bags all packed, apartment cleaned and keys handed back, twas the day from hell, firstly during the cleanup the hob decided to crap an element and tripped the 63a breaker in the Energy Australia Meter room which we'd no access to, emergency call out and $99 later the powers sorted.
So off to the Airport we went unusually early, nearly 4 hours before hand, off to check in the bags when Tina was told she had no visa? We obviously showed them the print out of the visa but they said we would need a tourist visa in order to return to enter New Zealand, so here's where it all makes sense , you can't apply for a tourist visa within Australias borders and NZ won't allow you in without onward travel to a destination where you'd no visa restrictions, after much arguing and calls to both Australia and NZ immigration we were told we'd have to book a flight home in order to enter NZ, lunacy I thought and the Checkin people weren't much help with suggestions, giving all sorts of conflicting information which delayed us alot.
So we have 50 minutes to book a refundable flight to London, Dublin, etc from NZ so after finding somewhere the flight closes in 5 minutes and my card gets declined 3 times, so we missed the flight and it's looking like a night in the airport, Tina pulled the waterworks so we weren't charged to be put on the next flight, all we had to do now was find an alternative to pay for a ticket.
After a bottle of wine at the airport to calm the stress, we were ready for a sleepless night, but hughesy (my old boss) came to the rescue and put us up for the night so we did get a middling sleep in the end...
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