Bay of Islands

Bay of Islands

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March 11th 2011
Hello all and welcome to my last blog! Can't believe it has been 9 weeks since I left the UK. In some respects it feels like a long time but it also feels like yesterday. So I arrived at Auckland airport and hadn't organised how I was going to get up to Paihia but I had realised that if I was going to make it back to Auckland in time for my flight on Saturday morning there was only one option - hi ... 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