In reply to Gemma *G*:
Maybe, though depends what sort of climbing. There's plenty of rock where I live but not much snow or mountains, so alpine stuff in NZ attracts me. Given I don't know much was considering a bit if time in a course then a bit of time doing easy objectives (up to grade 2 perhaps) would be cool. Courses are pricy, though sans much existing skill seems the safer option.
I spent 17 years in NZ so know bits of the place, and have friends here and there.