From an upstairs flat in Coventry to a sprawling rural Wairarapa lifestyle idyll, a couple of UK expats know where they’d rather be. Le Mere said the UK was a “shambles” when they left for good for the second time in December 2020. Mark Tantrum Photography/Stuff Alison Payne and Richard Le Mare have been at the coalface of the pandemic in the UK and were glad to be back in New Zealand after 13 years. Mark Tantrum Photography/Stuff Alison Payne and Richard Le Mare came back to New Zealand during the height of the pandemic in the UK. They returned nine months into the pandemic and being New Zealand citizens they were allowed back in.

Source: Stuff May 04, 2022 01:10 UTC