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NZ Road Trip: The Coromandel Peninsula
Time is an illusion, it has often been said. Somehow in the process of returning home from California and then heading out here to New Zealand we have moved forward 21 hours, meaning that we’ve lost, somewhere, almost a full day of our lives. Whilst the 8 hours from California was effectively repaying the 8 we gained on the way out there, we won’t be reimbursed the other 13 until we go home from NZ in mid April. Given that delay, wouldn’t it be good if, like a savings account, it was possible to earn interest on the time invested? You know, be given bonus time in return for investment.…
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Auckland NZ.
Irregular. That’s a fitting word for the view from the balcony of our 21st floor apartment. Irregular because it kind of plays games with the senses, looking across the rooftops to the sea, then after the sea, more land, and then after the land, more sea, then more land, then finally at last the sea once more. Such are the crenellated complications of the Auckland coastline with its multitude of islands, headlands and sweeping bays forming this strangely alternating view that no matter how many times we study it, we are still intrigued and amused. Irregular it is, indeed. Irregular behaviour. Just as irregular as the view from our 21st…
