Old Streets of Auckland... at night...

... in a museum. There's a big gap in the city where they picked up these "historic" buildings and dropped them in through the museum roof. They smell of ducks and christmasy pine needles of off a christmassy tree.

Ask yourself: Am I living in a brothel?

September 23rd 2007
On a warm morning in Auckland we ventured out, through the Central Business District, by-passing the shopping Mecca that is Queen Street, past the Ferry Terminal to an area of poster plastered adult shops and fusty strip bars next to the docks. Our search for a place to call home for the next four months had brought us here. I have to say, that with the benefit of hindsight, it was an inauspicious ... read more

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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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