Just Like Home

We took a long drive up to Northland to meet up with my parents, and this gave us our first taste of travel in the populous part of the country between Hamilton and Auckland. Much of the terrain closer to Auckland is very reminiscent of southern England: dull farmland, cattle and even a motorway looking exactly like it was transplanted here from the UK. Even the Motorway Services look pretty much the same. North Hamilton also seems to be trying to look like modern Britain with faceless out of town shopping estates and an overdose of roundabouts.