Caving

New Zealand

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September 22nd 2007
My first impression of New Zealand is how very much like England it is. The cold, damp, drizzly weather; the stodgy food (fish & chips, pies, white sliced bread); the expensive, fizzy beer; the brick buildings (though there are wooden ones too); the same buses, the same shops … It takes me a while to adjust to all this, and quite simply, I miss Asia… But I later learn that most of that is ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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