image

New Zealand - North Island

---

March 20th 2015
Hi everyone, we are now on the North Island, Wellington. This morning after my lonnnnng sleep !! we got up, I packed my suitcase, having big problems with that !! The cheeseboard was in the way !! despite this, my suitcase seemed to have shrunk !! I said to Stu, we seemed to have accumulated a lot of stuff, what have we brought, well if he didn't bring up the cheeseboard once, he repeated himself ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

---

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