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Welcome to Middle Earth!
Confession. I never liked the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit films. My grandfather gave me the Tolkien novels when I was just a little too young to deal with…
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Opposites Attract
Bryan’s recent blog about re-becoming Kiwi got me thinking about all the new experiences for me in New Zealand, without that back history to draw upon. We often joke that…
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Out with the old, in with the new!
I’ve seen plenty of posts on social media etc wishing away 2020, wanting to write off what for many was an insane, terrible year. Just one friend’s Facebook post stood…
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Re-becoming Kiwi
It’s a disconcerting feeling, returning to your home country and not, well, feeling totally at home. I’ve only myself to blame – I left 24 years ago, first for a…
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Freedom to Camp
Without a doubt, New Zealand is a spectacularly beautiful country. It is not without irony that, had it not been for COVID, we would not have been able to explore…
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The Wild Wild East
The last time I’d been around the remote East Cape of New Zealand was on a family holiday when I was about seven or eight. Growing up on a berry…
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Van Life Shake Down Tour
It has been a few weeks now since we started our New Zealand van life experience. In some ways, living onboard Aroha has prepared us well. We are already used…
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Introducing Cyril!
Meet Cyril! Cyril’s a 2004 Transit Camper Van who’s had a busy life running mainly international tourists around the hot spots of beautiful Aotearoa. But like us, over the last…
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Dining In In Isolation
We are set for release this afternoon! It’s funny thinking that our 14 days in NZ Managed Isolation is about the same time it took us to sail from Dubai…
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Managing Isolation
The last stage of the airport exit process was for hotel allocation to find out where we would spend our managed isolation and the next 14 days. We were told…
The next chapter in life
