Crikey, it has been quite a week. Prior to last Saturday, we had been spending quite a lot of time working (arrghh!), sitting drinking cups of tea and reading about possible adventures. Last Saturday it all started up again. We have been trying to come up with a suitable UK analogy for our adoptive New Zealand city. It is difficult, because our stay has been quite functional; it is after all the biggest economy in New Zealand and the best place to get a job. It is so tempting to rubbish it, (as everyone in the South Island likes to) and describe it as being like Derby, but with more urban sprawl and a bigger giant phallic symbol (the Sky Tower is the tallest man made structure in the southern hemisphere, about half an inch taller
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