Crazy Hatster

Last day in NZ...arriving in Fiji.

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March 31st 2009
31/3/09 = Re-union feast and a biting discovery. Woke up earlyish today in grubby, smelly room….definitely not a place you want to lay in bed and snooze. All got up pretty much straight away and went straight to phone another hostel; could not spend another night there! Phone in hostel didn’t work, so in our urgency, we rushed out onto street in a desperate search for a phone that did work, p ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Central

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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