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February 2011

local chocolate delicacies

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one of the highlights we give to visitors to new zealand from overseas is a little guided taste of our fine (and not so fine) confectionaries

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pineapple lumps (covered in chocolate) don’t seem to go down too well despite them being a national delicacy 

diamond dogs dog’s diamonds

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what IS that which has dropped out ?

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(titled updated as a tribute to david bowie. i remember years back i had another bowie title on a post.  can’t remember what that was now though.  oh well)

unstealable sign

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there’s something great and timeless about this sign.  and also something very solid which is unlikely to be stolen !

the stone store

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it’s exciting to find big solid buildings in new zealand as there aren’t many about.  here’s one which has been a shop almost since time began (in NZ)

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