Northland
November 11th 2008 Back to Auckland in time for Halloween...... but Auckland is no place to hang around in when the rest of NZ is waiting. I got back on the Magic bus and went up to Paihia in the Bay of Islands, about 3 hours north of Auckland. It's yet another beautiful coastal area, and even more interesting as it is the place where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, so it's a historically significant plac
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