Bon Voyage

You Don’t Always Need To Leave Home To Broaden Your Horizons

I have just waved goodbye to two beautiful young people who are heading off in a camper van to tour New Zealand. I miss them already and yet we only met by a stroke of fate.

Tom and I visited Saint-Malo for a weekend when we were in France two years ago, and met Morgan, who worked in a really cool bar in the walled city.

It’s a fascinating and beautiful place – well worth visiting. Saint-Malo was founded in the sixth century and its position on the coast of Brittany was a perfect strategic home for pirates in the 17th century.

We really enjoyed chatting to Morgan, who said he was coming out to New Zealand at the end of the year. He’s a keen surfer and was looking forward to travelling around our country’s surf beaches. I gave him my email address and told him to get in touch if he needed a place to stay for the night or any information about the country – and that was that. I heard nothing, and nor did I really expect to.