As the Uber driver helped load my suitcase into the back of his car in downtown Auckland on a cold Monday morning, he asked, “Have you been to Waiheke Island for the weekend?” “Ah, no, Fiji,” I replied. “I’ve just come back from a wonderful cruise to Fiji.”
Lucky me. It felt surreal – I had just stepped off P&O’s at Shed 10 on the Auckland waterfront, gone through security, travelled in the Uber and I was
