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New Life (Moving to Paeroa!) August – October 2012

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October 22nd 2012
Having used our wedding in 2006 as the perfect excuse to honeymoon in NZ we didn't quite know back then the big dream we would unleash and that five years' later we would set off on our Odyssey with our possessions in a few bags last December! Not that there was much of a hardship with bonus trips to the USA , OZ and finally at least six months in NZ to get jobs and hopefully settle down f ... 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