Thank you - and indeed I did! One of the best parts was the short climb up to a giant 1200-year-old kauri tree, just a little way up a hillside, through the most beautiful, fairy-like bush I've ever been in. I only brought two things back with me from New Zealand - a pebble from a beach, which I'm telling myself is greenstone/pounamu, and an old, dry piece of kauri gum, part-way through to being amber.
Yes! The whole New Zealand bush felt otherworldly to me. :) If you googled kauri I expect you saw some of it - so different from the harsh, skeletal, lacelike Australian bush - I mean the bush I'm most familiar with. Which is also beautiful, but in such an uncompromising, pared-back way.
I'm always impressed by prefab & wooden & corrugated iron buildings - planning authorities have never valued them here, and they rarely survive in this country...
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One of the best parts was the short climb up to a giant 1200-year-old kauri tree, just a little way up a hillside, through the most beautiful, fairy-like bush I've ever been in. I only brought two things back with me from New Zealand - a pebble from a beach, which I'm telling myself is greenstone/pounamu, and an old, dry piece of kauri gum, part-way through to being amber.
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New Zealand sounds fabulous!
And wow, that is an expensive (few slices of) tomato! Just one more tiny scary detail of climate change.
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I'm always impressed by prefab & wooden & corrugated iron buildings - planning authorities have never valued them here, and they rarely survive in this country...
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