On the move

The day we left Methven heading to Queenstown....A 4 hour drive took 8 hours. Guess who did all the driving!!! I'll give you a clue, it wasn't Lorraine.... Here I'm trying to suss the snow chains out. Being the typical man, I didn't read the instructions....needless to say, I couldn't put them on, so we turned around for a slight detour!!!

Welcome New Zealand

June 14th 2006
Ouch it's cold..... We arrived to a very frosty Christchurch airport today, and boy it's colder than Oz. We decided to stay just the night here and head off, as so much to see in 4 weeks. We headed the following morning an hour or so down to Methven, which is a beautiful and pretty little town, where people from the south Island come for the ski/snow-board season. So, once we arrived, an ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South 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 year... ... read more

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