As the weather made history for all the wrong reasons, I was plotting my escape. A time machine back to 2019, before everything started going downhill, seemed like a logical choice. But a jaunt across the Tasman on board Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess was a slightly more realistic if not infinitely more luxurious way to cure my pandemic hangover.
My voyage from Dunedin to Sydney via Hobart began in a minibus. Around the Otago Harbour and over the Peninsula, we passed Papanui Inlet –
