Flipper II

Christchurch and Kaikoura, take 2!

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January 20th 2009
We had somehow managed to arrive back in Christchurch much sooner than we had expected and, although it was a lovely city, we had seen it all and done everything we wanted to in the few days we had spent there when we first arrived in New Zealand. Ian blamed me for not reading the magic bible and informing him that we only had two stops after Queenstown...nothing to do with the fact that he hadn' ... 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