Main Street, Coromandel. Rushhour

good as gold

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February 6th 2007
Having fuelled up on a "full works breakfast" at Rotorua's Fat Dog Cafe (can't find an accent aigu on this keyboard!) I went in search of my bus - it turns out schedules are handled in a very relaxed manner in this country and the bus left about half an hour too late, the driver casually checking in travellers as if there was all the time in the world. Knowing I only had 10 mins to catch my connec ... 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