Getting up for England

Home is where the van is....

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July 14th 2006
It was certainly strange touching down in NZ. Not because the temperature dropped 30 degrees, not because the sun had been replaced by clouds, not because all the crazy Vietnamese had disappeared, but because it was kind of a home to me. It certainly wasn't MY home, but it was ONE of my homes. It had been four years since I was last living here, working as a high powered........ cleaner.... For ... 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