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5 days in the real New Zealand!
Hi everyone, Thanks for all your e-mails and posts...i really enjoy reading them and having some contact with the UK. Sorry it has taken so long for me to write the next installment but I have been in the middle of nowhere for the past 5 days! I arrived at my first hostel on the Corromandel Peninsula - place called Thames - last wednesday to find i …
Coromandel
This bit of our trip in North Island is nearly over. Tomorrow we fly down to Christchurch to see family. Last weekend Tane popped over and we had a lovely feast and finally drank the fantastic wine he brought over from his Uncle in Oz. I also got to try out the new car he bought and the whopping speakers!! Monday we hit the road again and headed up …
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