The scream said it all!

Only in New Zealand........

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November 25th 2008
Hello all, once again from Auckland, where we very tiredly arrived on a bus full of very whacked looking travellers, most of whom at the end of their magic trail and ready for a rest - or some about to take a flight home / to another country. For us, our arrival into Auckland it is a stop gap - a quick clothes-washing fix, a twin room at our hostel in order to get some good shut-eye (fingers c ... 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