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Mark the Maori Warrior

January 9th 2013
People have been asking us whether it's sunk in yet that we have a whole year off, and that we're not just on holiday...now I can happily say that it has! The other night I was lying in bed, trying to decide what to do the next day and it struck me that we could do whatever we liked, whenever we liked, for the next 365 days... And our only real concern is whether it'll be sunny enough ... 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

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Hazel & Mark

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We are taking a year to travel around Southeast Asia. We fly out to Australia on the 17th Dec and will spend Christmas and New Year staying with family in Sydney. We are then going to fly to Auckland and spend a couple of months in New Zealand before returning to a round tour of Australia for another couple of months. By May time we should be back in Sydney and will then plan the rest of the tour of countries including Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam... (Apologies in advance from Mark for the inevitable spelling mistakes).... full info

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