A quaint little church

God knows where this was - think it was somewhere that was mentioned in a previous blog. We stayed at a campsite down the road and it was like going back to the 70's - it had not been touched for 30 odd years - and the water tasted funny - didn't like that one.

The end of NZ but bit more of Auckland first

June 28th 2009
Well after we left Glacier country, we went up as far as Greymouth and stayed there a couple of nights as we had to get some work done on the van. Grey is certainly the operative word - we arrived on a cold, drizzly, overcast day and being frank, the place is a dump. There is nothing to see or do there - we felt sorry for the tourists coming off the Tranzalpine train journey for reaching such a no ... 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

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