The Penny Divers

Below the bridge to Whakewerawera village, the local kids swim using every trick in the book to get tourists to throw them money. Our 40 year old guide did it when he was a kid and apparently it has been going on since the 19th century!

Land of the Long Black Coffee

February 28th 2010
It had been a long time between visits to my beloved home country, but I still managed to take Ursula to New Zealand in the same decade I left... just. We arrived at Auckland airport on the morning of December 31st 2009. We immediately made a bee-line to Auckland's one universal spiritual focal point: the café. We managed to stop for breakfast 500 metres short of my mother's house - who I haven ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Waitakere

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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