Winter

The Count Down continues

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August 16th 2011
Today I took the time to visit a friend and buy some of his personally carved green stone necklaces to take with me and give to my hosts/hostesses in England, something uniquely New Zealands as a keepsake, a thank you for their kindness for opening their homes with me. For them I also bought some soap, made with Rotorua's mud and minerals and for the ladies also a Thermal mud pack each also. ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » New Plymouth

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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