Laura and Marj

Alexandra

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February 4th 2007
The past month has been spent working at an orchard, picking and packing cherries and thinning apples. It has been hard work and at times very boring, in particular in the freezing cold packing shed. Alex is a very small farming community with not a lot going on, so after getting up at 5.30 every morning we we're pretty tired. We stayed at a great hostel called Marj's place, a very homely plac ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago

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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