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February 24, 2023

Eating fush and chups and riding a giant canoe in the sky in Aotearoa

Fush? Let me explain. Foreigners like to mimic the way we Kiwis pronounce the letter ‘I’ as a ‘U’, so that to the non-Kiwi ear ‘Fish and Chips’ sounds like ‘Fush and Chups’.

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Airports

September 23, 2019

Snowberry, pōwhiri, Pinot Noir and the All Blacks – how Kiwis fly high

The end result represents one of the world’s only skincare bio-discovery gardens, a place of wonder and great beauty. You could walk around the estate for hours, your jaw dropping at every turn.

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Airports

September 17, 2019

Nau mai! Haere Mai! Back in Aotearoa

When you look at the inflight screen flight path and you see the Antarctic looming up as next stop beyond your destination you know you’re a long way south.

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