Number Plates

Despite not planning to emigrate for at least another 18 months we decided to treat ourselves and get a personalised NZ number plate for my wife's car, which we'll be shipping out. I'd never have dreamt of getting them in the UK as they are horrifically expensive, and you can't pick your own phrase so they're usually a concoction of numbers and letters which you have to spend 10 minutes trying to work out what it says. Take a look at the UK DVLA site to see what I mean!

For the princely sum of NZ$699 (we went for the more expensive 'Euro' plate option as it'll be easier to fit to the car) we are now the 'proud' owners of our very own plate (incidentally, the above plate 'NZBLOG' is still available at the time of writing). We got it from Personalised Plates who are the NZ Government's contractor.

Extravagant I know, but it's one more step towards our destination.