Posing for the camera...

Not the standard backpacker day: Gourmet wine tour day

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March 23rd 2005
Tuesday was one of these days we don't do much (which doesn't happen so often). We started the day with a pancake breakfast, with chocolate sirup and banana... (and thanks again Sheli for the recipe!), and spent a few hours at Angie and Gordon's to read about the North island and plan ahead. Then we went to the "Gardens of the World" in Hope, a town near Nelson. We found it in the Lonely Planet b ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Marlborough

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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