All Blacks Home Pitch - Eden Park

Arrival

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January 4th 2015
Geo: -36.8474, 174.766Arrived at 6am. Lost a day in travel/time change. Auckland is 1 day ahead and 3 hrs behind Vancouver. Had a nice drive through the surrounding area on a quiet, sunny, Sunday morning from the airport with a great driver. Turns out he also drove Prime Minister Harper and his daughter, so we felt privileged!.Diverted up an extinct volcano, there are 50 in the region, t ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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