Rotorua Mud

The Full Stinktown Experience

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May 18th 2006
Awesome. Woke up with a hangover on my first morning of annual leave (why do I always get drunk before I go on holidays? maybe it's a celebration thing.). Anyway, after spending seventy nine hours dropping james on and then trying to get off the shore... I was good to start packing. Except my washing machine broke. With half my potential luggage in it. Fine. Off to St Lukes to hurriedly ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

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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