“Coming home should feel like a holiday. We wanted everything to be easy.”
PEARL DELANEY-GIRDLESTONE
The way people move through the stages of life is never even – usually more of an amble, interspersed with sprints – but Pearl Delaney-Girdle-stone and Cruze McFarlane have had a busy two years by any standard. Since returning home to New Zealand from Australia in 2020, the couple have launched not one but two businesses, started a family with the arrival of baby Atlas and settled into their first house, a former bach on the Kāpiti Coast.
Having embarked on the career-developing migration abroad, Pearl and Cruze’s journey from Bondi-based expat life to their own slice of heaven was defined by deadlines. Their plans fast-tracked by Covid-19, they just squeaked into the country minutes before the borders shut, then launched into a house hunt, driven by the impending arrival of their baby. “We found this place, saw it on
