230km from Hamilton lies New Plymouth. We had breakfast in Hamilton and checked out the shops, it is quite a large city compared to Whangarei (a city here is wot we would call a town in the UK, a town here is maybe wot we call a hamlet (not the cigar but the collection of a few houses) often without an obvious pub!). Drove onwards to Otorohanga, which is built around the fact it has a Kiwi house, seriously, everything in the town makes reference to this fact and there are giant statues of Kiwi going in and out of the town, its like some huge alter to a giant Kiwi god. Anyhoo, watched them feed Kiwis, they is mental birds innit... One was doing flying kicks at the keeper of kiwis, landing some serious blows
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