Aotearoa - Land of The Long White Cloud. New Zealand: The South Island.
January 8th 2012 I have been promising myself some time to sit down and write a blog entry for our visit to New Zealand that took place over Christmas last year whilst Sheila and Eddie were visiting. The fact that we had such a fabulous time and managed to see and do so much, I wasn’t sure how I could possibly put the experience succinctly into a brief account to share with our followers, so the job kept being p
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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 
