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Sweet As South Island

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August 5th 2010
Gut en Tag! So after an early 6 o'clock start we took the ferry over to Picton taking in the sites of the Malborough sounds on the way to th eMalborough Wineries - seemed a good a place to start the south as any! This consisted of vinyard after vinyard which equated to Jan and I pretending to know about wine and trying every eine to compare, it would be fair to say we were quite merry and I ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South 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