This is a satellite picture of Mission Bay, Auckland, we'll be stopping near to the centre of this picture. The little blue circle near the top left of the picture is a well-known Mission Bay landmark, a fountain that lights up at night. It's very odd to think that we'll be looking at this in a few days' time. It's a small world, as I write this in Caversham, England, I'm listening to Radio New Zealand, streamed off the Internet.

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