Snow Joke

North by Northwest

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February 28th 2008
Hi Everyone, This will be the first of two shortish entries covering our last few weeks in New Zealand. We arrived in Christchurch from Kaikoura where we had done the whale watching, and after a 10 minute walk we found our way to our accomodation. We got ourselves clean, we had a good meal and we did whatever we felt like because we were staying at the Y.M.C.A. We had a great room that would ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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