Paddon touched down for three days to attend the New Zealand Agricultural Field Days in Hamilton last week, before making the 30-hour trip back to Europe.
Rather than regarding it as a hassle, Paddon said on social media that he always enjoyed an opportunity to return to New Zealand and treated the brief visit as a ''nice little recharge''.
He and Marshall are heading to the eighth World Rally Championship event of the season determined to amplify the positives and eliminate the errors which have marred recent results.
Fresh from a short, half-day test for the super-fast Polish rally, Paddon said they would be ''focusing only on our own driving and rally''.
''Obviously, there's a need to eliminate the mistakes from [Rally Italia] Sardegna and we have made some small changes to prevent those happening again.''
The 326km event is held from tomorrow until Sunday and Paddon believes it suits his natural driving style.
''I really enjoy Poland; it's one of the fastest events on the calendar. Generally, there is some room for error, so you can push a little more. It's a rally that rewards commitment and bravery, which I like,'' he said.
Having used the short pre-Poland test to fine-tune the settings for his Hyundai i20 coupe world rally car in preparation for the softer, sandier type of stages ahead of them, Paddon is keen to see the condition of the stages.
''With the softer nature of the stages, the sweeping effect is not as great as somewhere like Sardegna.
''If the road is too soft, it can also cut up quickly, so it's hard to say at the moment what will be the most favourable road position,'' he says, referencing his starting position of eighth for tomorrow's opening leg, this result of him being eighth on the WRC drivers' championship points table.
Paddon and Marshall will be in the No4 Hyundai i20 coupe world rally car, while Hyundai Motorsport team-mates Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul, and Dani Sordo and Mark Marti are in the No5 and No6 Hyundais respectively.
