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The Auckland City Council, here in NZ, has gone the extra mile (or, since we are metric: 1.6093km!) to put up a rather flash Christmas tree in the main downtown square - Britomart Place (aka ‘Komititanga’ – Junction): a nod to the fact that the squa...
The local Museum of Transport and Technology was having a steam open day, and I decided to check it out.  To get to it I had to go through a beautiful park area that I had not traversed for years, and I came across a forgotten gem, a Japanese/NZ gard...
When we look at most artworks that have survived from ancient Greece, Rome or Egypt (to name a few) we are faced with just the surface decorations that have not succumbed to the ravages of time. However, there has always been evidence that statues an...
New Zealand is home to two species of type of bird known as rails: the Pukeko and Takahē . They may look very similar, and it would be tempting to think that are closely related, but that is not the case. Pukeko are not indigenous to New Zealand, but...
The Nestor genus of parrots includes two extant species from New Zealand and two extinct species from Norfolk Island, Australia and Chatham Island, New Zealand.KEA: King of the MountainThe Kea is the world's only mountain parrot, living in the NZ Alp...