Waiwera Thermal Baths nestled in the hills

Auckland

May 23rd 2008
(P) The weekend! Our housemates kindly took us on a picturesque drive to Waiwera Thermal Baths for the afternoon, where they had a Movie Pool (mostly Disney) and several other outdoor pools with natural spring water up to 41 degrees! The setting was amidst hills of lush green trees and it was great to be swimming (okay, more bathing) in the outdoo ... read more

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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

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Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way! Nick - these are a couple of quotations that I picked up along the way: "In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, s... full info

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