The best-laid plans
And whither goest thou, tell me where? During the Auckland lockdown last year, when we were stuck for months in a house with up to eight other cabin-fevered flatmates, we started thinking about living and working in another country. We discovered that once you are over the age of 30 (which both of us are), there is only a very short list of countries to which kiwis can apply for a working holiday visa. They are: Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, and somewhere in South America... maybe Argentina? Apart from Hungary, who operate through the German embassy in Wellington, all the other European countries have their embassies in Australia rather than New Zealand, and all of them except for the Czech embassy required applications to be in person. That was impossible for us at that time, as we would have had to get an MIQ spot to return home, and those were rarer than hen's teeth. So, we began to consider the Czech Republic. As we went on our d
