I get around!

My wife thoughtfully bought me a satnav for Christmas and here am I in my old Landrover using it so that I don't get lost between Lower Town and Middle Town on the 11/2 miles of road on St. Martin's!

Seriously this is an important part of our holiday planning.  We bought a Garmin as currently they are offering lifetime map updates on some of their models and I discovered that you can download open source maps for New Zealand which are really up to date.  We thought this would be useful in NZ as we spent nearly an hour driving round the centre of Nottingham not so long back when we were trying to find our destination.  Most of the places in New Zealand are quite small but we are going to have to find places in Aukland, Wellington and Christchurch which knowing our form could waste a lot of time.  So we are packing the satnav and hope it gets through customs.

We have packed one case today as part of our preparations.  We are allowed 23Kg each hold luggage on the flights from Heathrow and 6Kg of cabin luggage but on the small plane we fly out from Scilly we are only allowed 15Kg total each.  We are sending the case weighing 20Kg on the Gri Maritha which is the freight boat which operates between Penzance and the islands.  It leaves Scilly on Thursday and we will fly on Thursday with 30Kg luggage  and collect our seaborn case from Penzance docks on Friday.  The complications of living on a small island!  We are due to travel to Heathrow by train on Saturday before flying on Saturday evening.