This Kiwi family has been travelling across the world in their VW Kombi named Izzie. When Kirianna Poole was growing up in Rotorua she had high-flying dreams. “I was 4 when I went on my very first flight from Rotorua to Nelson to go and visit my grandmother in Golden Bay,” she recalls.
“I remember being so excited to walk through the aircraft handing out the lollies and a dream was born that paved the way for my future.” Fast-forward a few years and Kiri, 37, who’s of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui descent, was working as a cabin crew member for airline Virgin Australia when she met Aussie pilot Lachlan Poole. “In 2012, we were both based out of Auckland and we went to so many places, like Fiji, Samoa and Tonga – within a year, we were engaged,” Kiri smiles.
Not just smitten with each other, they were also bitten by the travel bug and in 2014, the besotted couple moved to Tokyo to fly for Air Japan so they could tick off some more bucket-list countries..
