Which way home?!?

New Zealand - South Island

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May 28th 2009
After departing "Windy Welly" we had an unusually calm ferry trip over to Picton on the south island. Our hostel there was called Tombestone, named after the neighbouring graveyard. The front door was in the shape of a coffin lid and there was free breakfast - always a bonus (the breakfast that is not the funny shaped door). From Picton we took a water taxi (or boat) up to a section of the Quee ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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