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Conquering Mount Taranaki

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“When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.” ― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar The second stop of our New Zealand adventure was in New Plymouth. Grahams old work colleague Ross moved out here a few years ago, and offered to show us why New Zealand is known as the adventure capital of the world. We set up camp for the next few days in a caravan in his garden and agreed to get up at 05:30 the…read more

Kia Ora

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Kia Ora! We are in country number 15.5 (if we count Zimbabwe and Qatar as 0.25 each). New Zealand, the land of kiwi fruit, kiwi birds and chocolate fish. Oh, and it’s the adventure capital of the world too. We had just one afternoon to spend in Auckland. We managed to squeeze in a hike up Mount Eden to see a panorama of the city, followed by an evening in the pub sampling the local beer and wine, and watching Djokavic overcoming Wawrenka in the semi-final of the Australian Open….read more