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Travels around the North Island - or How not to cook a pizza...

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November 11th 2010
Well, it has been quite a long time since I wrote hasn’t it! Afraid I have been having far too much fun to sit down and write. Plus it’s been too wet, hostels in the north charge an obscene amount of money for the internet (how I miss the poor south) and I have now become an official Backpacker, with backpack and consequently now lose small items, such as laptops, in the bottom for days on en ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island

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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