Sophie and Snoopy

Collingwood

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January 23rd 2007
Last "weekend" (on my days off) I went to Collingwood (the last tiny beach town in Golden Bay) and house sat with my friend Jennie at a woman named Allison's beautiful beach house. We invited two other traveling women friends of ours and so there were four girls together and it was just the most fun! The house itself was what I would love my house to be like someday. There were huge windows loo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Nelson Region » Golden Bay

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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