Blenheim

Fun + Metatarsal + Mark = Grape Stripping

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May 13th 2006
My plan all along had been to get back home for the World Cup and spend the next month comfortably watching it unfold on the sofa/down the boozer, only to be interrupted by a full on week in Germany my mates. Seven odd months should have been more than enough time.....late April, 6 weeks to the WC I'm in Taupo and have only just scratched the surface of NZ. I've now ... 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