Day 100 - Reminders of summer

Even in what feels like the depths of winter, New Zealand can throw up a surprise of an evening like this, when a bright blue sky turns dark with a sunset like the best of summer.

Day 99 - Wetas

I'd been in New Zealand only a few hours when I encountered my first weta - the terrifying-looking insect made famous by Hobbit director Peter Jackson, who named his Weta Workshop visual effects house after them. Apparently they're an endangered species so I have to be nice about them, but for someone with bordering on clinical arachnophobia, the sight of a two inch, armour plated, spike legged, air-bourne beast like this one nearly had me running straight back to the aeroplane that brought me here...

Day 98 - The White Lady

Every town needs a food van to satisfy those late night cravings for chips or to soak up some of the alcohol after an evening of excess. Auckland's is more iconic than most, the White Lady having served up midnight burgers and hotdogs since just after the War, and even in daylight it stands as one of the city's most historic sights.