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Amelia Norman spent a large proportion of her childhood travelling the world, and vividly remembers complaining about it much of the way: there was the eyebrow-raising tantrum in the Montreux market at age 3; the defiant disrobing in Bath (note: not in the bath), aged 4; falling asleep in a plate of Bangkok noodles, aged 8; and the disgusted indignation that only a 15-year-old can muster at "yet another boring glacier" in Alaska.

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Heaven is a Blokart
Science was never my strong suit. So when Garry Ingram, Track Manager at Blokart Heaven in Papamoa, tells me that what I'm about to do is "all about physics", I instantly panic. Suiting up with a helmet and weathered fingerless gloves, my trepidation and I follow Garry to our waiting blokart......
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Climbing the Iron Way: Queenstown's Via Ferrata
"Remember: the journey is everything," says guide Chris Prudden, as our group of eight assembles beneath the hard, flat face of Queenstown Hill on a grey Sunday morning. We are about to scale the Southern Hemisphere's only Via Ferrata: an Italian climbing system comprising a series of fixed steel rungs, pegs and cables......
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