Compliments of Lufthansa, the Queen and the King
With just over two weeks to go to New Zealand and back, including flights, every minute is worth gold and I made sure that we would have no hiccups on the way. This includes not having to transit via Tokyo, as originally planned. When I bought the tickets back in May, Lufthansa was offering a flight from Madrid to Auckland via Munich and Tokyo. The catch was that in Tokyo, we needed to transfer airports, from Haneda, south west of the capital, to Narita, east of the capital. At the time, with 18 hours layover, I saw that more as a treat than a burden. Just enough time to have a little booster shot of Japanese food and culture. What I didn’t know at the time, was that foreigners were still not allowed back into the country due to strict COVID regulations, and it wasn’t known when these restrictions would be lifted. June, nothing but likely the restriction would be lifted after the summer. July, nothing but speculations that it was going to change soon. August, nothing but definitely bef