Kate

GREYMOUTH: What seemed to be the end of the earth!!!

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January 29th 2008
Hi everyone, me again!! Trying to plough through these blogs lol!!! Arrived in Greymouth around 4ish!! What a sorry looking little town, so grey and lifeless-didnt like it at all!! And the town was awful, nothing and nobody there, lol!! Was an old mining town and it kinda still looks like it would of back then, very strange!! Karl our new coach driver had basically said there was nothing to do the ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Greymouth

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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