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“We were in town one day…went shopping in a big mall. His Dad, beaming proudly, tells stories of his son’s beginnings as a performer: It’s easy to see the physical parts of his parents that mixed together to make Anthonie. His parents are waiting for us in the loungeroom with NZ wine and we chat languidly with kind horizontal afternoon light streaming in. We arrive at his family home in the suburb of Mosgiel amid blocks of modest 50s houses. I suggest some driving gloves to complete the picture. The steering-wheel is wood-grained and Anthonie sits statesmanlike behind it. In Dunedin Anthonie is magically there waiting for me and we load my gear into our tour’s station wagon. I’m in New Zealand!īack at the airport waiting at the gate lounge I feel a wave of exhaustion wash over me and I set the alarm on my phone for a 15 minute power nap and set it down beside me, noting how the blue case is perfectly camouflaged with the carpet, and fall instantly into a deep sleep. An old lady reads a plaque like it’s a children’s book to her husband who nods along. The gaping crater of the one I’m standing on is all grassed over, looking soft and begging for a sheet of cardboard and a gentle push. Soon enough I’m at the peak taking in an expansive 360 view of Auckland: buildings and water, other green volcanic mounds in the distance. Cicadas thrum loudly past me, lumbering from tree to tree like buses of the insect world. A narrow slippery path climbs the grassy green slopes. So much optimism in fact I decide to climb the extinct volcano that looms over the suburb. I strut up the street of Mt Eden with a renewed sense of well-being and an unusually lucid brain for 9am, a neater looking head and a vaguely itchy neck. Jetlag always feels like a fresh beginning, and so too does a new haircut.
He’s Jordanian, and is very fast with the scissors, and in his spare time plays the ‘oud.’ It’s possibly the best cut I’ve had in a while, though all of them since Primary School a variation on the same theme. Do the usual spiel: the same, but shorter, not squared off at the back like a Lego-man, try not to make my face look rounder than it actually is. I buy it and head over across the road to a barber she recommends. “A very important moment in NZ literature!” they’d said. I spot Man Alone by John Mulgan, someone had recommended it to me before. I want to buy a classic NZ novel for the trip. So right now, Time Out Books in Mt Eden: Anthonie’s friend Jenna is at the counter and directs me up a narrow staircase and I stash my things under a table for safe keeping.
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Our sushi benefactor vanished too, they’re both on the same flight, leaving me with the half full tray of raw fish to pick at. “I’ll try the salmon please.” Kiwis are certainly very friendly and less suspicious than most other people I’ve met.Īnthonie left me to go board his flight to Christchurch where he’ll pick up the car, he’ll drive to meet me later in Dunedin.
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The stranger offers him free sushi as well and Anthonie accepts without a second thought. I make a vow that I’ll learn something about grooming and deportment off Anthonie over the next few weeks. Thankfully Anthonie turned up, looking as fresh and sharp as ever, before I have to expend too much non-existent mental energy. A gateway into banal conversation about what I am doing here, where I am going. The gifted sushi for this man is a trap a gateway snack. But as I’d followed my rule of not eating aeroplane food for the last 12 hours I am famished, and so accept gratefully. It occurred to me that sushi is not something I’d ever accepted from a stranger, nor ever should I. While I waited for him in the fluro green ‘Sumo Salad’ lounge in the Domestic terminal a stranger sitting next to me offered a piece of his sushi. I’d already seen him in person for a coffee at 8am this morning when I got off the long-haul flight. Today my touring companion for the next couple of weeks Anthonie Tonnon has arranged for me to drop these superfluous belongings at his friend’s bookshop. There’s a practiced art of making a great weight seem like a mere newspaper under your arm as you walk past the gate check. Only a little while ago I was back-patting myself for smuggling 20kgs of old Blues/Folk LPs on the International flight from America as cabin baggage. I shoulder my belongings, curse them three times, and shuffle back down the street a few kilometers.
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“Sorry bro, I always forget that one! Ya shoulda said something,” the driver apologised brightly. I’d told the driver of the Skybus at Auckland airport I’d like to get off in Mt Eden, but when 40 minutes into the trip we zoomed past a cluster of shop awnings bearing that very name I knew something was up.
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