This category contains all journal posts about any time I spent visiting Auckland, New Zealand. You probably figured that out seeing as though I titled the category “Auckland.” And I placed it as a subcategory of the “New Zealand” category (itself a subcategory of the Australasia category).
I won’t give any spoilers here as to the content of the posts. But allow me to take this opportunity to dispel a couple of common myths.
First of all, despite being on the opposite side of the world from the centre of the universe, Toronto, Canada, things don’t fall off the Earth here. That is a good thing because standing on Earth is much healthier than falling off it.
Second, no, unmatched socks that originate in Toronto don’t fall through a hole in the planet and end up in Auckland. I was disappointed to learn that isn’t true. I hoped to reunite some sock pairs.
I’m back in Auckland after my visits to Dunedin, Queenstown, Christchurch, and Wellington, in that order. Sadly, that means this trip is winding down. Today,...
When Robert B. Sherman, a Disney composer, authored It’s a Small World (After All) for Disney he obviously never travelled from Toronto, Canada to Auckland,...
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