Timelord Travels South

“We had only been in New Zealand for a weekend but already I had begun to understand how the country’s dramatic landscape — volcanoes, mud pools and geysers, pristine beaches, lush vegetation, lakes and huge, huge skies — could inspire the imagination,” former Dr Who, Peter Davison writes in a travel piece for the Daily Mail. “Indeed, with a population of only four million on both islands, there’s a laid-back feel of yesteryear to New Zealand. Bric-a-brac abounds, and if you want a set of prints of classic cars or a china floral arrangement, this is your place.” Davison was the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.