Almost there...

Up a mountain, down a beer...

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October 22nd 2008
I've had a couple of months just busy with exams and so there hasn't been much room for blog worthy activities, however this weekend along with my english mate Simon (finally another englishman arrived! Took 8 months!), we climbed our first mountain!! We kind of jumped in in the deep end a bit with this one, although it's obviously not a mountain in the league of everest and the like, it was prett ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Mount Aspiring National Park

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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