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Today one year ago we arrived in New Zealand!
It has been a real interesting and fun year and we have done and seen heaps.

To commemorate our leaving Europe we went to O,Sarracino, a superb italian resteraunt. We found the food and people really authentic which reminded us of our motorbike tour through Toscana.

O,Sarracino
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Hallo miteinander!

Wir würden sehr gerne mit euch wieder einmal ein bier (oder zwei) auf den Wiesen genießen! Wir haben letztes wochenende ein Supermarkt gefunden der die kleinen Warsteiner Fäßchen hatte also können wir auch hier unsere Maß glässer füllen.

Wir hoffen es geht Euch allen gut.

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The ship actually arrived about a week ago but because of a series of computer, timing and communication problems we only managed to get an appointment to see it today.

Imogen organised all the various paperwork with Customs and MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Farming). To our surprise, the MAF official went through our inventory item by [...]

This all happened pretty fast.
It’s simple here.

They have a standard form issued by the Tenancy Tribunal which the landlord and the tenant fill out together. You hand over the deposit to landlord, landlord hands it over to Tenancy with completed and signed Tenancy Agreement…. hey presto! Done. We can live here for a year now. [...]