Meet the Locals
How's this for a typical NZ scene?
From: Oceania » New Zealand » North Island
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 yea... [read more]
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 yea... [read more] Blog: Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Date: August 13th 2008
Holy Macaroni! Can you believe it's been well over 2 months since the last blog entry? If you've been wondering where we've been, the answer is simple - nowhere! For almost 8 weeks now we've had rain, rain, storms and more rain. Yes, it often felt like we'd never left England! Well, it is wintertime here so we didn't expect the weather to be great but on Sunday we had our first sunny day without s ... read more
Date: August 13th 2008
Holy Macaroni! Can you believe it's been well over 2 months since the last blog entry? If you've been wondering where we've been, the answer is simple - nowhere! For almost 8 weeks now we've had rain, rain, storms and more rain. Yes, it often felt like we'd never left England! Well, it is wintertime here so we didn't expect the weather to be great but on Sunday we had our first sunny day without s ... read more
Comment on Meet the Locals
Hello! Welcome to Jude and Glynn's travel blog. We're a pair of newlyweds freshly back from a wonderful year spent traversing the globe and about to embark on our newest adventure - emigrating to New Zealand!
About us: Glynn's 34, a Batman fanatic and graphic novel afficionado, a Warehouse Supervisor when he has to be and a general all-round nice guy. Jude is 33, a hardened gig and festival goer, a Lecturer dabbling in IT, Literacy and German and a general all-round nice girl.
We met in 2004 over the internet and were married in Feb 2006. We've so far been to Japan, Hong Kong, China, V... full info
| Joined: | April 17th 2006 |
| Status: | BLOGGER |
| Blogs: | 365 |
| Photos: | 3,118 |
| Forum posts: | 17 |
| TB Code: | [photo=2706249] |
Options
Copyright Notice: All Rights Reserved
The text and photos of this article remain the copyright of the Author (Inspirado). Under no circumstances should the photos or text be used without the express written permission of the Author (Inspirado). If you wish to use or publish photos or text from this article - please
Contact Jude & Glynn Harris (Inspirado) - a lack of a response does not mean that you have permission to use material from this page.