Last year

To visit an historical site in New Zealand often means a visit to a Māori pā site which will involve standing in a grassy field, or on a headland, looking at a ditch which marks an old fence line, perhaps another which denotes a storage area. Don’t get me wrong it’s always interesting, standing there in a spot where history was made. Even a grassy field can be enough to bring that history to life in your mind.

But New Zealand (like the name suggests, good branding decision there guys) is a pretty new country. We don’t have stone structures from forgotten civilisations dotted about our countryside. We just have grassy ditches and ridges that once held wooden fenceposts or formed a terrace.

So get a chance to go overseas and look at stone ruins swallowed by the jungle and lost to the mists of time and I’ll go a little bit mental.