Rose-tinted Polaroids (by Joe)

New Zealand truly is very beautiful, but the whole experience has been taken to a new level for me by the purchase, as we left Australia, of a pair of Polaroid-lens sunglasses (see right/ below).

The experience these things give is incredible: it really is like turning up the 'vivid' button on everything you look at.

And it's not just the richness of the colours you see around you; they make me cheerful, and I seem to burst spontaneously into song whenever I put them on.

Magic!

Joe