Beach trip

Bizarro World

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June 27th 2007
After doing our best headless chicken impersonations and trying to madly catch up with everyone and get organised over the last couple of weeks, Ed and I finally scraped through check-in without having to pay for our ridiculously overweight bags, and collapsed in a heap on the plane. Five hours later we stumbled off at the other end, bleary-eyed at 1am the morning before we had actually left (alth ... read more

Oceania » Samoa » Upolu » Apia

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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to... ... read more