Christmas Dinner al fresco

Backpacker Escapees

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December 23rd 2006
Well we've worked out why we need the rat race ... so we can afford life's luxuries like Magic Cottage. This was a "romantic hideaway" we booked while we were still earning spondoolies back in the UK. It's basically a little hut right on the river Takou leading out to beautiful Takou Bay and was to be our home for Christmas. The cottage is very near Kerikeri just north of the Bay of Islands s ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Kerikeri

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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