Gary & Honor

Last 2 days NZ

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August 25th 2010
The blog I posted about our last 2 days in NZ failed to post so we're rewriting something about it now. For the last 2 days we stayed with some good friends of ours who used to live in England but moved to NZ. On the first day we played around in their Auckland home and we went to the Auckland war memorial mueseum, where we had lunch and saw and exhibition on food and experieced a volcano (simu ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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