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Scots Bemused

Scots Bemused

“The strangeness of New Zealand is brought home to us the very first night of the tour. We’ve just bought our first round in a bar in Paihia, when this Maori guy rolls up to us in a wheelchair and asks: ‘Do you want to hear the pig joke?'”.

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