New Zealand Options

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So here I am watching late night TV on one the minor channels which shows a 50/50 American and British shows, and it has the Late Show on, I'm not really watching but I turned to listen for a few second, I can't remember the joke but David started talking about Kangeroo meat and he said he thought they had it in Austrialia and New Zealand To quote Mark Twain "If it would not look too much like showing
off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is; for he is as I was; he thinks he knows...It will be a surprise to the reader, as it was to me, to learn that the distance from Australia to New Zealand is really twelve or thirteen hundred miles, and that there is no bridge." Which for the record makes NZ the remotest country in the world and we were the last place on the earth to be settled by humans, excluding Antartica if you call that settled; and no, we don't have kangeroos!

New Zealand is mentioned so much in international TV, I just watched An inconvenient truth and NZ was mentioned in 2 circumstances which isn't too bad when we are in the middle of nowhere with the population of a large city, Al Gore seemed to know where we are but so many times NZ is mentioned in part of some stupid comment which not only shows they don't know where we are, it shows that they think they know where we are.

So for your information NZ is in the South pacific, a very long way South East of Aussie and a similiar distance to Antartica, plenty of forest still around although it is threatened by foreign invasive species, the worst of them being humans, most of our animals and plants are endemic, meaning that we have a ton of really strange creatures which you can't find anywhere else, we have the highest concentration of Gondwanian biodiversity in the world which is cool. We also have a widely varied and diverse landscape, with more coastline than the US, a mountain range which is part from the most visible faultline from space, 1 of a few countries with fiords, we have tropical climates quite close to perminant snow and so on. And yes, we do have a ton of sheep, although you don't really notice them unless you go out and drive in the country, its something like 16 sheep per person so you can keep on making sheep jokes.

Oh and the Automobile association recently released a 101 top places guide to NZ:
http://www.aatravel.co.nz/101-must-dos-for-kiwis/index.php
I find it funny that the parliamentary buildings are ranked at 100, despite being one of the more iconic and unique parliamentary buildings in the world I think we are one of the few countries who would rate it as one of the least interesting places to go.