Hamilton – Auckland – Sydney
(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)
After a little while walking through the different themes of the Hamilton Gardens there was no time left to do anything except hit the motorway and drop the now filthy hire car off at Auckland Airport. I was feeling sad my time in New Zealand was at its end, and an awful Qantas in-flight movie starring Adam Sandler did nothing to improve my poor mood. But I did have a chance to reflect on all I’d experienced over the course of a month in NZ, and there were some pretty extraordinary things on the list. And in all that time I hadn’t even heard a snippet of the song that is almost a Kiwi anthem - Dave Dobbyn’s Slice of Heaven. That was perhaps the most extraordinary thing of all.
