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NZ on World Stage (or at Least a Spanish Balcony)
NZ on the World Stage (or at Least on a Spanish Balcony)
The World Cup has enabled New Zealand to take new steps on to the world stage, or at least on to the balcony of a small hotel in a Spanish village.
This is in Sitges, south of Barcelona, where an enterprising hotel owner this weekend decided to attract attention (when there's a slump in tourism) by hanging flags of World Cup countries ... and there in the bottom right hand corner, NZ is represented, though in a smaller (more modest?) size than the others.
Still, it's a rare occasion for NZ to be on view in Spain - such visibility is usually restricted to kiwifruit in supermarkets ....
Lindsay Shelton
Wellington Scoop Editor
Lindsay Shelton started work as a journalist with the Dominion, then the Sydney Morning Herald and later TVNZ, where he was editor of network news. Then he became the first Marketing Director of the NZ Film Commission. He's been editing Wellington Scoop since November 2008.
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