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from: CLOCKY
date: 2016-08-27 23:18:00
subject: Re: A trip to New Zealand

On 27/08/2016 6:16 AM, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Andreas Kohlbach
>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:08:03 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>>> In article , Andreas Kohlbach
>>>  wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:35:58 -0700 (PDT), rbernardo@iglou.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is my itinerary ¡V
>>>>>
>>>>> September 1 ¡V Leave San Francisco for Wellington, New Zealand.
>>>>>
>>>>> September 3 ¡V Arrive in Wellington, NZ. Accommodations provided by
>>>>> Trevor.
>>>>
>>>> That looks like a 24+ hour flight already, even considering a time zone
>>>> change.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, looks like it would be fun. Enjoy and report back here please.
>>>
>>> Flight time from San Francisco to Wellington is only around 12-14 hours
>>> for a direct flight, but it it can be more if it is via Honolulu and /
>>> or via Auckland, New Zealand (especially if there are transfer flights
>>> to be waited for).
>>>
>>> Even on a direct flight, if you leave San Francisco at night on 1 Sept,
>>> then you could well arrive in Wellington on the morning of 3 Sept
>>> thanks to the date line changeover.
>>
>> Thanks for that.
>>
>> That must also be a hangover. Already the jetlag of 12 hours must be
>> bad. A 6 hour jetlag (Europe  North America) takes me about 3 days to
>> get used to.
>
> The hangover will only get worse when you get off the plane and realise
> you're now in a fourth-world country ...

That's simply a ridiculous comment.

  made especially evident in
> Wellington by the cheap knock-off of the "Hollywood" sign plastered on
> a hill next to the airport.   :-\
>

Yeah, that's cheesy.

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