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The gulls wheeled and pirouetted above me, cutting knife-like tears in the clouds. Sunlight filtered down through the holes like fingers of God, and splashed in the sea that bobbed green and grey in the grey day.
I gathered my jacket closer around me as the wind whipped in from the...
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What is now the city of Napier in the North Island of New Zealand didn't used to be as flat and idyllic as it is now. In fact, it used to be rather hilly. But during the massive earthquake that...
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Hastings, situated in the North Island of New Zealand, is so close to the neighbouring city of Napier that there is hardly a space between them. One minute you are driving through Napier, the next...
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The Lilliput Model Railway is a place I can remember being taken to as a small boy. We were on a family holiday to the coastal city of Napier in the North Island of New Zealand, and I simply wasn't...
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I have always seemed to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I think that animal shows - especially those that show off marine animals such as dolphins - are an important way of getting people...
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In 1931, New Zealand was still a young nation. Its population had yet to reach 2 million, and the country was still trying to assert itself on the world stage in terms of industry. But one Feburary...
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There were millions upon millions of the big white birds with yellow heads, all jabbering to themselves in a language I don't think we'll ever understand. The brisk sea breeze rolled in with the...
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One of the greatest, most satisfying things that I did in New Zealand was to eat some of the country's succulent fresh fruit. There is nothing quite like biting into something soft and squishy that you know has been organically grown, and feeling its sweet and sticky juices running down your...
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Ahh, what a place. Hawke's Bay is found on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and has some of the longest sunshine hours in the country. Apparently it hardly ever rains. And it certainly didn't when I was there. In fact, it was really really hot. Which may be why the wine went...
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