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Amelia Norman spent a large proportion of her childhood travelling the world, and vividly remembers complaining about it much of the way: there was the eyebrow-raising tantrum in the Montreux market at age 3; the defiant disrobing in Bath (note: not in the bath), aged 4; falling asleep in a plate of Bangkok noodles, aged 8; and the disgusted indignation that only a 15-year-old can muster at "yet another boring glacier" in Alaska.

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A Cruise through History
The Bay of Islands has an air of impossibility about it. Here in Paihia, the late afternoon is impossibly tranquil, the sky impossibly blue and the Pacific Ocean, gently bobbing with the tide, is impossibly sparkling....
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They Know How Lucky They Are
Mackenzie Country folk know how lucky they are. I know this because they told me. Repeatedly....
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Waitomo's Black Labyrinth
Karl's voice floats upriver through the echoey dark: "Basically, what we're looking at is the snot and pooh from a bunch of cannibalistic maggots."...
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The Panorama Restaurant: A Fairytale Feast
I don't know if Cinderella ever ate pineapple Carpaccio or if Snow White sipped on Sauvignon Blanc, but as I nestle into the fairytale surroundings of the Panorama Restaurant in Aoraki Mount Cook Village, neither princess is far from my mind....
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