Tag Archive: Rotorua

Dec
10

Solo Travels, Pt 4

The New Zealand adventure began well, it was a bright morning in Christchurch (I’d had to wait in the airport until the car rental place opened at 8:00am), and I was now in control of a Daihatsu Sirion – possibly the ugliest car I’ve ever driven. It feels terrible as well, but it was free …

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Oct
17

New Zealand, Pt 2.

From the morning call at the Auckland Museum, we headed South on our first real drive to Matamata, home of The Shire. What should have been a fairly non-eventful journey was hindered by the distinct lack of road signs in New Zealand, and the fact that their major roads never appear to be particularly major. …

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