In the beginning we called ourselves 'The Griswalds' after the movie 'European bVacation/b', but by the end we had earned the name 'The Incredibles' like the super-hero cartoon family. What I realised by the end of the trip is that I ... Growing up in the bOratia/b Valley, a rural fruit-growing district on the road to the West Coast beaches of Auckland, New Zealand, I spent my childhood in the family orchard, working, playing and dreaming. In spring, masses of white blossoms ...
