Amanda Palmer: Insider's Guide to Waiheke Island, New Zealand
8 May, 2021 10:00 PM
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Amanda Palmer on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. Photo / Duncan Innes
NZ Herald
By: Amanda Palmer
A few days ago, a bearded guy dressed like a wizard at my kid's school fair sat next to me and said that Waiheke was "the lifeboat of the world". That feels... accurate. I landed for a one-week tour of New Zealand in March 2019 and wound up trapped by choice in this country for a year. Once I heard about Waiheke Island (once referred to as an island of "activists and lunatics") I knew I'd found my spot.