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September 11th 2007
When you travel to New Zealand from the UK there’s not much further you can go - you may as well just turn back again from there. I seem to recall that Forrest Gump’s attitude to the southern US states was pretty similar although my own mode of transport was not an old pair of running shoes, but a Boeing 747 from Heathrow to Auckland featuring a brief stay in the transit lounge at LAX (enough ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » North Shore

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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Michael Griggs

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Coaching cricket has drawn me to the other side of the world from the UK....New Zealand awaits, and the highs and lows of the challenges ahead will be documented here on this blog, in all their glory! Unless I am deported in the meantime, the next seven months will be spent in the land of the long white cloud, where you can witness AT LEAST four seasons in one day if my first week is anything to go by, and where among the work-related obligations I have lined up I also aim to experience some adventure along the way... MG September 2007... full info

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