The reason for Alice & Co’s trip to New Zealand – apart from my perpetual itchy feet, is to visit my younger sister and her family who recently emigrated from the UK’s Lake District to Lake Taupo in the middle of North Island. Thereby exchanging one big lake for a much bigger one. So the last part of our grand trip via the Cook Islands and Auckland is a squiggly drive around her new homeland. First stop is East Tamaki […]

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