{"id":30854,"date":"2017-05-10T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/avril-sur-ile-nord\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:02:59","slug":"april-on-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/april-on-north-island\/","title":{"rendered":"April on North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Back in Wellington, I spend a few days in the company of Niels (and his wife), whom I met while working at Te Anau<\/a>, several months earlier. They live in Plimmerton, an upmarket suburb of Wellington, about 30 minutes by train from the center. They kindly agreed to host me for free during my visit. The main purpose of my stay in Wellington is to make an appointment with a nose doctor to settle the sinus infection that I have been carrying with me for several months. My nose is very often blocked and the pressure causes me severe migraines. This has been dragging on since my arrival in New Zealand and causes me a lot of worries. From a simple infection, it seems to have turned into a chronic infection. I only have three months left in the country before my visa expires, so I have to fix this problem which could potentially prevent me from taking a plane.<\/p>

So I make an appointment with a private doctor. The only way in New Zealand to see an ENT doctor without waiting for months and months. But the only available appointment that the secretary offers me is April 18, three weeks later! I hadn’t planned to stay in Wellington for that long and it upset my plans for the rest of my trip. In fact, I was thinking of spending ten days in the Wellington region and then joining the Bay of Plenty region in order to work for two months in a packhouse kiwi, a warehouse where the kiwis are prepared for sale. The idea was to save for the next destination, touring Asia by bicycle. My plans fall apart and I feel a little confused. So I spend several more days with Niels and his wife gardening and cleaning the house. It is also an opportunity to stroll through Wellington and listen to Niels sing and play the guitar.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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