In May New Zealand started to resume life as normal. We started May in Covid alert level 3, where we were still working from home, living in our home’s “bubble”, and treating ourselves to a takeaway, to level 2. Level 2 meant back to the office, back to hugs with our family, and back to restaurants. Our Prime Minister just required us to be “spaced out!”
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Sunrise behind Rangitoto Island
April 2020 – a month of mostly lockdown life in New Zealand. We were largely confined to our “bubble” – our home, with whoever we live with there. We were allowed to exercise, but not to swim. To supermarket shop, if we did it alone, sanitised and spaced. To see our friends and family – through a video screen. I worked from home all month, and thanked our luck that we live so close to the sea that my daily walks could encompass gazing out to the horizon. Unlike March, April seemed to fly! And I took a lot of sunrise photos…
Remember when we went out to places and people cooked for us?! Delicious Tom Yum soup at Tok Tok Takapuna
While many places around the world were already being hit hard by Covid-19, March is the month when things really changed in New Zealand. We went from dining out and swimming with friends to locked down in our “bubble” with only essential trips allowed in the space of a couple of weeks. I’m incredibly lucky to be able to work comfortably from home, with the beach in range for my daily runs and walks. But it’s still a weird, strange and stressful time! Here’s how the transition of March went for me…
Yes, a rather belated February round-up… but you know what, suddenly I’ve a bit of time on my hands! At the time February felt manic, but now I’m glad we fitted in so much socialising, swimming, and galivanting around the country. We started off with 24 hours on beautiful Kawau Island, and from there the fun just kept coming!
