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Looking forward to seeing this place on the next series of Horcrux Hunters
One of my main take-aways from 10 years of employment: whenever I have to spend any non-trivial amount of time using MS Office software, I can wave goodbye to ~30% of my productive hours.
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I think "Amazon Basics" whisky might just turn out to be the least wise purchase I have ever made...
A sign in Christchurch airport departure lounge.
Day 20 - heading home
An array of colourful chilli plants.
Day 19 - Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Sailing boats on the shore of a lake, with mountains in the background.
Day 18 - Moana
View over a glacial valley, with hillsides covered in trees and the edge of the glacier visible in the background.
Day 17 - Franz Josef Glacier
A waterfall surrounded by woodland, with a stony river in the foreground.
Day 16 - Mt Aspiring National Park
View over fields and woodland, with a mountain range in the background.
Day 15 - Paradise, near Glenorchy
A stone statue of a Kiwi bird on the edge of a pier.
Day 14 - Queenstown
View from the bow of a boat travelling down a sound, with large cliffs on either side and clouds covering the cliffs on the right.
Day 13 - Milford Sound
View across a lake, with mountains in the background.
Day 12 - Te Anau
A spike of vivid blue flowers in the foreground, with the view over a hillside and natural harbour.
Day 11 - Larnach Castle gardens, Dunedin
View over a wide valley, with bushes in the foreground.
Day 10 - Mount Cook National Park
A small mountain, with much larger mountains looming in the background.
Day 9 - Mt Sunday (Edoras)
View from a hilltop into a natural harbour, with grass in the foreground and the hillsides around the water covered with a mix of grass and trees.
Day 8 - Akaroa
A sign at the entrance of the village of Rotherham on the south island of New Zealand.
Day 7 - Home sweet home? I wish...
The wake of a ferry as it approaches port.
Day 6 - Approaching Picton by ferry
An eagle descending from the roof of a museum onto the observer.
Day 5 - Haast's eagle, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
A series of white water rapids in a gorge, surrounded by trees.
Day 4 - Huka Falls, Lake Taupō
A bright green thermal spring surrounded by short cliffs covered in thorny plants.
Day 3 - Waiotapu, Rotorua
A lake in front of several Hobbit holes and the "party tree" in the Hobbiton movie set, Matamata.
Day 2 - Hobbiton (Matamata)
Auckland central business district - street with foreground plants.
Day 1 - Auckland
It's exactly 1 year since I arrived in New Zealand for a 3 week holiday - so to give myself an excuse to reminisce as well as engaging with social media in the only known healthy way (broadcast-only, shouting into the void...) - here are some photos!