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Category: New Zealand

The house of a thousand shells

The joy of seeking out and finding the strange

Reading The Luminaries after visiting Hokitika

What books reveal about a place before you go, while you’re there, and after you’ve left

Buying for a budding bookworm in Auckland

Trusting the expertise of a bookseller to recommend local authors and leaving with the best gifts

How to spend an afternoon in Wellington like it’s 1902

Have we really changed all that much in more than a century?

What does a 30 million year old pancake look like?

A short walk off the long road between Hokitika and Nelson in New Zealand

A tried-and-true way to find the most memorable spots

How a breakfast conversation led to two day trips in New Zealand

An unexpectedly brilliant playground in Christchurch

The young (and young at heart) are welcome in an oasis in the South Island’s biggest city

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