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October 2025

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October 2025

Hands up if you’ve ever used public transport to go tramping in New Zealand. I did take the train to National Park once, but that was on a school trip and I would not have considered it an option otherwise. This is New Zealand: most of us go by car. I got to thinking about […]
Alistair Hall

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