Yachting World

MATT SHEAHAN

However you travel, New Zealand is a long way from Europe, but when I left in November last year it took just over two weeks from the day I left London Heathrow to get to my destination. And while I’ve visited the Land of the Long White Cloud many times before, this trip down under was unlike any other.

For starters, it was the most comfortable long-haul flight I’ve ever done, thanks to there being no

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