Oh my god I can't believe it, I've never been this far away from home - New Zealand
November 29th 2006 13+ GMT, New Zealand is definately the furthest we've been away from home. In fact in reality to get any further away you probably need to charter a boat and sail to some obscure island in the remote east pacific.
We arrive in Christchurch, the garden city, to call it a city is rather ambitious. It's pretty, but simply too small to be classed as a city as we associate them in the UK. In NZ you ne
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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 
