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Sights, sounds and fury

It was a magnificent Saturday in Auckland. With spring peeking around the curtains, we rode our bikes to Ponsonby and sat outside a record shop, where the owner laid on a cheeky lunchtime beer and people strolled past, glad of the sunshine and a day off.

Downtown, a village of stalls served up little plates of bhel puri and samosa chaat to Diwali

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