The Coromandels

Adios New Zealand...

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November 25th 2006
And on to the final stop in New Zealand before beginning the new section of my trip in Australia. Travelling is a funny old fare, before leaving London people questioned me about going half way around the world on my own. Won’t it be lonely? How will you spend so long alone? Won’t you miss all of your friends? Well of course I miss everyone back home, but as I suspected, I have been far from l ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Coromandel

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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