Us at the top of Mount Rangitoto

Christmas is looming!!

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December 20th 2007
Well hello again! We are well and truly coming to the end of our time in New Zealand, we fly back to Australia tomorrow, then up to the Sunshine Coast for a week for Christmas. We are both really looking forward to a week of doing nothing, as we have been pretty busy over the last three and a half weeks fitting in everything we wanted to do in NZ. Since we last blogged, we have had an excel ... 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