Inside the Cathedral

in Christchurch

February 11th 2005
Woke late today after a great sleep in a very comfy bed and a very quiet hostel, just what we need for a couple of days. It's been raining all night and is still raining when we leave the hostel for the day. Raincoats packed we head to the city centre to do a few jobs and to see what we can do in Christchurch in the rain. The city looks really English, a bit like York maybe. We wandered th ... 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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Fiona and I started this blog in September 2004 when we decided to take a break from our jobs to go tour some of the world with a bag on our back and some money in our pockets. We had an incredible time, seeing some beautiful places and meetings some nice people along the way, we started in San Francisco and our last destination was Bangkok, in between we visited Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and Laos. We were armed with a 1.2 megapixel camera at the time, no mobiles, no WiFi, just good old fashioned books and the occasional internet cafe. The trip w... full info

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