Picnic at Pigeon Bay

Shaking the 'Jucy' out of Canterbury

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February 14th 2011
Leaving Sydney had been hard. Not just emotionally but physically too, with the airline giving us a lot of hassle about our onward flight details. So by the time we'd explained our intentions to leave New Zealand, and dashed all over the airport looking for a printer to provide paper evidence of this fact, we were both rather tired and slept for most of the three hour flight. Immigration and Custo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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