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Life on the road

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October 30th 2007
Impressed with Auckland, it was time to see the rest of New Zealand, and there's only one way to do that - in a campervan! Organised as ever, we left it to our very last morning in Auckland to see about getting one, but despite the warnings that these things need to be booked weeks in advance, our luck was in, and we managed to get this little number - home for the next 3 1/2 weeks. Wanting to ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North 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