Punakaiki coastline

Raging tonsils, Freezing glaciers and Milford Sound (which is actually a fjord and not a sound)

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August 24th 2007
I arrived back in New Zealand, slightly miserable after leaving Sydney, with a sore throat, which by the time I'd got to my hostel in Christchurch had turned in "raging" tonsilitis! (You didn't expect me not to get something while I was away did you?) I grabbed some Strepfen from a chemist having tried my hardest to persuade them to give me some antibiotics. I decided that I didn't have time to go ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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