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@johnhtran.bsky.social OH … ‘skilled’ is ok.

Will they be allowed to bring unskilled people with them to service their needs - or will that be the job of the patriots?

@Munish I think the Coromandel is a hike from Auckland for a day trip - particularly since the best bits are right at the top …

Might I suggest Waiheke Island - a 40 minute ferry ride from the ferry building. (On the map below - Waiheke is the big island about half way between Auckland bottom left and the Coromandel Peninsula on the right.)

(I might be biased - since it has been my home for the past year) - this is a series of daily photos from our gaff across Oneroa bay and on some of the pictures you can see the Coromandel Peninsula).

If you decide to make the trip - let me know and I will give you some specific pointers.

Other places … across the bridge and head north Northlands - be ready for TRAFFIC - Warkworth is an hours drive.

Re Coromandel - Thames is 1 hr 45 from downtown Auckland - and that is NOT your Coromandel experience! Example - Tairua - across the peninsula and mountains is another hour and half.

Not to put you off - but IF only a day - I wouldn’t do it - even two days with an over night stop?

BUT - if an overnight stop - a LOT of visitors go to Rotorua - again - tough for a day - but tourists rave’ - personally never been there - though a place I have driven past many times.

There’s also Hobbiton - south of Auckland - a 2 1/2 hour drive EACH way

Its a small country - i find that the best measure by how long it takes to get between places than by the miles / kliks between those places!

Final Thought …

What is total time you will be in New Zealand for - and what else are you seeing - then recommendations can be contrasts - alternatives to - etc

// @lmika

Thanks to the remarkable 🔗 Glossary Plugin by @AndySylvester - I have the work around for my new Wordpress blog. The blog is experimental - and when it formally launches might kick out some weird stuff. So, the script that will generate those posts and presented here ‘as my own’ will include a caveat that will be delivered courtesy of the Glossary Plug in - like on this post. Thank you Andy.

The power of the plugin is that as I go forward and find that I need to change the words in the caveat - I can - and all posts will be update automatically.

@manuelmoreale.com all good Manuel - all good. There is nothing you write that I can take real issue with (at least that I can recall), I think it is in all honesty it primarily lies in ‘style’ - and maybe the phrasing is as a result of it English being your second (third?) language? Me? I only have the one - I am that sad.

I will still point people in your direction - not every one enjoys oysters and caviar - but many do. Who am I to be the arbiter of someone else’s taste?

Regarding ‘style’ and the ‘scolding’ as @pratik wrote. I just popped over to https://manuelmoreale.com to try to find an example - and right there you write …

Put some effort into making your page lean and only serve me what’s necessary.

Yup - I feel scolded. And then left with so many questions …

How lean?

And how would I know what you deem necessary?

What do I do if that is incompatible with the wants of someone else?

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Surely a blog is what YOU want, because to write and illustrate for the masses is a fools errand. Your own blog is testament to exactly that.

On the flip side, is an inescapable truth, not everyone is going to like all of it all of the time.

Regards … another fucking idiot - if not to say imposter.

@Moondeer for me it makes total sense. Done it for years - and over time you build a (possibly new) narrative.