PianoMan

Exciting Ways To Injure Yourself In Queenstown

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May 3rd 2014
So I just had a little peek at TravelBlog for the first in many months, and noticed I have at some point inexplicably been awarded membership of the “TravelBlog Hall of Fame”. I did not know that this was a thing, but it would seem that it is a thing, and I am in it. http://www.travelblog.org/Topics/34398-1.html Apparently only 20 of the 300,000 or so bloggers on the site earn this each year ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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