From the English City, via the Edinburgh of the South, to the spiritual home of the Maori people, the last seven days of this 2017 British and Irish Lions tour have been a study in the shifting timeframes, cultures, and traditions of New Zealand.

TWO weeks ago, with the All Blacks due to fly out for Cardiff the next morning, Nick Evans was resigned to spending the month back home on the Otago Peninsula engulfed in his other great sporting love, fishing.