A couple of housekeeping points before I start: 1. In my last entry, the attempt to load a video clip did not work out. If I get a rainy day, I might look into this - and I might not. 2. The original plan to write every evening has been replaced by a better plan that involves enjoying the trip to the full, and only writing if there’s nothing better to do (like now, on the coach between stops). So, for day 5, the focus is formally on a peninsular south East of Auckland called The Coromandel, though informally, I can see that the question I am working for these 2 days is ‘is New Zealand pretty much the same as the British Isles?’ Let me start with this question. If you were to take a
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