Not a Sole Around

Bugger! It's Strangely Familiar Here!

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October 29th 2006
3rd to 31st October 2006 You wait all your life to get somewhere, imagining what it's like in finite detail and then, when you arrive, you find out it's just like home. Bloody typical! Still, I should know by now that it is better to travel without pre-conceptions. It's not New Zealand's fault, as a country or culture, that it is so similar to where I come from. And, in contrast to taking t ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island

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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