Got my skates on

Packing up my life

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June 27th 2007
And so it begins, I'm surrounded my half packed boxes and trying to remember everything I still have to do. I got my Working Holiday Visa for Canada in April and immediately resigned from work. A month or so later I bought a ticket and I'm off to Canada on the 5th of July. The plan is to fly into Vancouver and explore western Canada for 6 months and then head east, eventually flying out of Toronto ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

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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