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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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The Monteith's Brewery: It's tradition.

Leeanne is pure West Coast Kiwi. Long and lean with pushed-up sleeves, she is self-assured, tough almost. With slender arms she yanks the huge wooden beer tap and pours a glass of Monteith's Celtic Red in a swift, practiced way. ...

Breathless encounters in Kaikoura

He came from the Bounty Islands and took my breath away. That day, the Pacific Ocean resembled a slab of chipped greenstone. Smooth marbled jade interspersed with small, choppy peaks of white etched out by the whipping wind. Behind our speeding boat a fizzy trail reached back towards the waning shores of Kaikoura's South Bay....

Ready for some culture?

In his long, feathered cloak, the chief is formidable. As he speaks in a rolling, fluid stream of Maori, the whites of his eyes glisten from his brown, tattooed face. He holds a wooden spear-like weapon. With hulking arms, he gesticulates towards the sky, the ground and us, the crowd, as he strides with bare, tattooed legs, the length of his village. ...

Arrowtown's Wealth of History

Escaping history is near impossible in Arrowtown. While the hubbub of the small town's central cafes and boutique shops emits an impression of a modern dwelling, one glance along the schist-laid main street suggests there's an old tale or two behind this Central Otago settlement....