Wellington

Just need to write this and put in the photos, Hopefully I can add more tomorrow, there really has been so much and as usual its impossible to catch up here.

So arrived in Wellington. Some of you might know, my Dad was in New Zealand in 1939. He came for adventure and to find his fortune. All he found was the outbreak of WW2 and he joined up in the NZ air force. i think he pretty much had a great war. Most of it was spent training and at least from what i can piece together 2 years of that training was in NZ at various airfields.

So there I am walking down a street in Wellington and I see a statue that seems familiar. To be honest before I realized what statue it was I had thought to myself, I wonder if Dad had been here. It was always a family joke of his, when we would see things on TV, he'd say "been there". He been a lot of places and I realized he had been standing right where I was now standing 70 odd years ago.

2008

My Dads pic taken from the same spot in 1939