St. Kilda Beach

Among the First to Welcome the New Year

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January 8th 2008
We saw a few sights around Dunedin after Christmas, went to one of the beaches, and managed to get the van's exhaust system fixed too - it is so much quieter! We went for a tour of Speight's Brewery, one of the oldest and sole remaining gravity fed breweries in the world. We had a great guide who made the tour very entertaining; he even recommended the folk music festival we would later attend f ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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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