36 Reasons To Love New Zealand

As promised, I’ve written a blog about the best parts of NZ. Actually, I use that term “written a blog very loosely”…I’ve compiled a list of some of my favourite things about my home country. You can interpret these as you choose – in a strange turn of events I haven’t elaborated on any of them. The most elaboration you’ll get is in this first paragraph. You see, I started to write this post a few days ago but I wasn’t happy enough with it to publish it – it seemed a little “show-offy” to me. I was busy going on about all these things that made NZ better than other countries, rather than my original intention of saying positive things about Aotearoa. So, without further ado, here is the list of *positive* things that I love about NZ:

1. Family

2. Friends

3. Childhood memories

4. More memories

5. Pineapple lumps

6. BBQs

7. Gumboots

8. Jandals

9. Barefeet

10. Camping

11. Beaches. So many beaches

12. Baches

13. Agriculture

14. Pasture-based farming

15. Horses. So many horses

16. Sir Edmund Hillary

17. Jenny Shipley (think about this one)

18. Marlborough Sounds

19. Lord of the Rings

20. The Hobbit

21. Our reputation overseas

22. Fish and Chips

23. All Blacks

24. Two degrees of separation

25. Hamish Bond & Eric Murray

26. Pride. So much pride

27. Pavlova

28. Coruba Rum

29. “She’ll be right”

30. Kiwi ingenuity

31. The haka

32. Silver Ferns

33. Summer Christmas

34. Boxing Day leftovers

35. Bungy jumping

36. It’s home.

So that’s a small, random snapshot into what I love about NZ. I could go on all day, but I’m going to leave it there.

“New Zealand is not a small country, but a large village.” – Peter Jackson

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That’s all for now,

Jordyn x