New Zealand
I am about to set off on an epic holiday, the trip of trips, I'm off to New Zealand. A whopping 12,000 miles, the other side of the world, a total of 34 hours to get there and a 13 hour time difference.
The Beginning
I was in the checkout at Tesco with a mountain of food and I began to wonder just what was I doing and why was I there.
This wasn't your everyday weekly shopping trip, this was epic. 8 huge boxes of cereal, 8 cartons of custard, 10 cakes, bags and bags of crisps, hundreds of marshmallows, kilos of cheese, 24 pints of milk, boxes and boxes of fruit and veg, enough food to feed an army. In fact, enough food to feed over 30 hungry Scouts and their leaders.
I had been given the task of planning the camp.
The woman at the checkout asked me "Stocking up are you?"
"Long story." I said.
Here is that story.