Te Anau evening

February 16th - on the (cliche) road again

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February 18th 2014
Time for the first time in a long... er time to be a tourist in my own country again. Armed with a car, an iPod and an overly sensitive accelerator pedal I set off in haste from Dunedin to get down to Te Anau... sadly haste was nowhere to be seen at first as I (along with many others) got stuck behind the slowest moving campervan you could imagine. The driver was doing 80km/h on the open road, and ... 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