Great article about my home country! Can't wait for borders to open and mandatory quarantine to disappear to get back.
You raised some important points, especially about planning hiking trips. We also drive on the opposite side of the road to north America which even I find scary now, even though that was what I only knew before moving to Canada!
I hope to write a few articles myself about wonderful NZ from a born and bred point of view. I have a ton of secret places to see and delicacies to eat to share!