GO NZ: Sounds like luxury: Cruising through Marlborough 10 minutes to read Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat Peter de Graaf If you want to experience New Zealand's most beautiful places – and I mean experience them, not just look at them from afar – you need to suffer a certain amount of discomfort. You need to lug a pack groaning under the weight of a week's worth of food. You need to put up with mosquitoes invading your tent, a wafer-thin mattress and dehydrated meals. Don't even start me on breaking camp in the rain or sharing a hut with a dozen incurable snorers.