Hoes at the ready !
December 7th 2006 New Zealand. Our next destination lies some two thousand kilometres away across the Tasman Sea. Australia seems far enough from home already, but this three hour flight emphasises quite how isolated New Zealand is from the rest of the world. It really is a long, long way away.
We arrive in Auckland - New Zealand's biggest city by far, and home to a quarter of the entire country's population - i
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