Hanging in the air

Paragliding Christchurch

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February 8th 2007
17/01/07 - 08/02/07 Christchurch We arrived in Christchurch and immediately felt very at home. The town looked and felt much more like England than anywhere else in the world that we’d been. Christchurch has boutique clothes shops and loads of cafes and restaurants with tables spilling out onto the wide pavements. The Avon River, flanked by Oxford and Cambridge terraces has huge weeping will ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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