New Zealand, my new home

As you may know, at the moment, my home is New Zealand. Aotearoa, 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'.

I flew down here in June to work for a company called Stray Travel. I will do an internship with them for the next three months in order to finish my Innovation & Management in Tourism study in Salzburg, Austria, next year.

Over the last five years I travelled around Europe although, as many of you may experienced before me, this became to small for me. I needed to leave Europe. Therefore, I decided during a (too) lonely evening in April on my couch in Rohrmoos, Austria, that I was going to New Zealand. I have to say this would not have been possible without the help of the best parents in the world. I think I owe them a huge thanks for all they did for me. Therefore, 'Dank je wel papa en mama!'

Since I was twelve years old I always wanted to go visit this country. Back in the days we had this travel program in The Netherlands which my parents and I always watched. At a particular summer Sunday New Zealand was in this program. I remember the presenter traveling through the South Island, visiting all these wonderful places. At that specific moment I told my parents this was the place I wanted to go when I was older. And look where I am standing (sitting actually) now. Im working for a great backpacker bus company called Stray. Living together with the greatest roommates ever, 10 min away from the center of Auckland, and working together with fantastic colleagues! My life is awesome!

Over the next period of time I will inform you about my (awesome) life in NZ. The thing I am doing, or did already, and the activities I am looking forward to do. I hope this will encourage everybody to visit this wonderful country and bring back memories for the ones who already visited 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'.