All you need is love

February 2013

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February 2013

Asbestos Cottage - home to Henry and Annie Chaffey for 37 years. Photo: Matthew Pike
Forget Verona and Gretna Green.  There’s a backcountry hut in Kahurangi National Park with as touching a love story as any work of Shakespeare The world of literature has Romeo and Juliet and the music world has Johnny Cash and June Carter, and even New Zealand’s tramping fraternity has its own classic love story – […]
Alistair Hall

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