One thing I miss about home is an Ordnance Survey map, especially the large scale walking maps. Because here, you go to the tourist office and pick up a brochure with 15 walks in it, and they tell you where to park the car, and mention a waterfall, or a headland, but no details. Every single road here has a name, even in the middle of nowhere, but not the houses - they all have numbers, which tells you the distance in kms from town, eg Robyn and Leigh are 647 State Highway 14, which means 6.47 kms from Whangarei. So, the walk leaflet tells you to park at the end of Horeb Road, and you need the AA map to find the road!!! When you reach the car park/lay by, there's often nothing to tell
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