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Dunedin - Rugby really is as bad as i thought

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June 14th 2009
So, off to Dunedin, just about!!!! We were staying Thursday, Friday & Saturday, but with the All Blacks playing France on the Saturday, accommodation was virtually impossible to get. We checked everything online, but no luck. I was about to give up & go somewhere else when the Tourist Info place said they had the last 2 beds available for the Thursday & Friday. So we snapped them up and set off on ... 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