What we found really strange, as we bowled into Kaitaia from the north, was that the Welcome To Kaitaia sign said it in Croation too. Big letters. Dobro Dosli. I wish I had a photo - it also has weird Croatian-lookin' accent marks over a couple of characters, which helpfully won't show up in this font. [how do I know it was Croation? Lemme just say that it helps sometimes that the Jarman is from East Jarmany.]
The good thing about Croation - or any of those Slavic languages - is that you can pull off a passable imitation/parody of them by talking in strange, gruff, oddly-metred low register monotones. If I was to phonically represent our attempts at pronunciation it'd look something like:
dob-o-roh dozzsh-lee
Try it. It's fun!
So anyway we spent the next few days running round laughing stupidly at cows in fields and saying "Welcome" to them in Croation.
Apparently there is a large Dalmation population in Northland. They used to be gum-diggers.
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