Rotorua

Up, round and Down a Bit......

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November 29th 2006
Hello everyone - you will be secretly pleased to know we are sat in an Internet Cafe because it is pouring with rain outside, and I mean pouring!! Anyway, a good time to try to play catch up again with this diary. We have been moving on pratically every day, trying to see as much as we can so here goes. I left you in the Coromandel where we had stopped in a Motel due to the weather. Sunday mor ... 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