P1020109

Auckland

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November 25th 2009
So our blogs seems to have stopped whilst we started to make ourselves comfortable in Auckland New Zealand. We had trouble with our flights from Sydney to Auckland too. The bimbo who booked our flights issued us with a paper ticket not an electronic one and so the company we were flying with would not let us board the plane. We had had enough at this point and so decided to not waste more tim ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Ponsonby

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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