View from Mt Eden (our local volcano when we were in Auckland)

It has been a while!!

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January 13th 2009
Wow so much has happened in the last few months (or is it only weeks?) since we last uploaded a blog it is hard to know where to start? Right have just checked; it turns out that we last left you at Te Anau in the south island during our month long holiday October/November last year! I have just found this on the lap top which hopefully fills in a few gaps (we never posted it, sorry!): ‘Jo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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