While in the doctor's office today, reading the American travel magazines, I learnt two new bits of randomly exciting trivia -- about Life in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Apparently:

1. A New Zealander is more likely to use the term "tangi" to refer to what we call a funeral in standard English. Did you know that.

2. The lowest monetary denomination in NZ (and in Australia) is not the penny or the pence. Whatever it is, it is not the 1¢/1p coin, because neither country has the latter. Or so the magazine claimed. Heh.