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Not bad for a non-Kiwi! Going on 4 years here and I probably knew most of those, but it took a while...
Roger, I've always wanted to travel to New Zealand, so thank you for the mini tour - the history is fascinating. The image of the miners' grave is heart rending. As usual, I learned quite a bit visiting you!
Marvelous post as always, Roger, interesting and informative and like Amy, I always learn something new. Hope you have a great week!
Sylvia
New Zealand sounds like a place I'd like to go, also. You make it sound very inviting.
Thanks for another thing I learned today. I hope to visit NV in the years to come. :)
Very NICE! It's always good to learn something NEW :-)
Yes, very Nice and iNformative :)
I would love to visit NZ...!
N is for numismatic!
Spent a month touring NZ almost 10 years ago. If we'd discovered it 25-30 years earlier we'd have emigrated there. It is quite a marevllous place.
Fascinating. I have always wanted to visit New Zealand. Thanks for the taste...now I want the whole meal.
Very educational-I thank you very much! I've always wanted to go to New Zealand.
Good for New Zealand giving the women the vote that early.
Fascinating history of New Zealand, a country I've always loved to visit. Friends from Wales spent 6 months there last year and it's between NZ and Canada if they move away from Great Britain.
Nice to learn a little more about New Zealand. I've been both to the North and South Island. I was fascinated by the deer farms where the deer are actually kept in the field with fences about 5 foot high. How do they do that?!! I also like the glow worms in the caves. I think they have a different name than glow worm but I can't remember it. This growing old business is not for sissies says my husband!
Nice to learn a little more about New Zealand. I've been both to the North and South Island. I was fascinated by the deer farms where the deer are actually kept in the field with fences about 5 foot high. How do they do that?!! I also like the glow worms in the caves. I think they have a different name than glow worm but I can't remember it. This growing old business is not for sissies says my husband!
This was the most interesting read. Thanks for all the history and information... I am leaving your post smarter than when I arrived!
I've visited NZ once, traveling from one town to another. Love the big open spaces, with more sheep than people. Big beautiful mountains and lakes too. Definitely going there again.
A stunningly beautiful country that I'd love to see someday.
Have a good week. :)
Score one for you! I'm really glad to see all these bits and pieces find a new home. I had fun sharing them, but it's interesting to see them back in order, too.
We did "meet" through Nik, but I also don't remember how specifically. I suppose one or both of us could go back through out archives to find out when we started trading comments, but…
Seriously, thanks for this!
We lived in New Zealand for a year and it is a gorgeous country! The people are great too - so relaxed and easy-going.
Some of your facts were familiar to me from that year, but not all!
I have never been in New Zeeland, it's so far away from Europe. But I know the States quiet well and of course Europe and Northern Africa.
All I know about New Zealand is their fresh milk lol. Thanks for sharing those information about New Zealand. Huh! the miner's grave is very touching.
Happy ABC Wednesday.
Though I visited N-Z in 2005 I didn't know all those facts. Thank you Roger for writing this post. N-Z is a very beautiful country, which looks like Norway! You've done a great deal of travelling, Roger! Thirty states in the USA is the same as thirty European states.
Thanks for your visit, Roger.
Thanks for taking us on your "trip." I'd love to visit New Zealand and Australia, but don't know if I'd survive the loooonnnnnggggg flight! Maybe I should put it on my bucket list.
When I was small I heard that NZ has more sheeps than the people. I don't know now if they can say that since many Filipinos did migrate to NZ for greener pasture. ^_^ Happy weekend! And thanks for visiting.
ABC Wednesday~Nikon
New Zealand is on my long list of places to visit, certainly looked spectacular in Lord of the Rings, now I wonder if I would come across any of those elven folk.
You make a great tour guide... It's amazing what we can witness through visiting other blogs. Thanks for sharing again!
http://www.gardenersreach.com/post/N-is-for-Northern-Cardinal.aspx
Thank you for digging up such valuable info in New Zealand. I had computer trouble and couldn't comment last night.
As a non librarian, I general read or hear these facts, and then don't remember them. ANZAC day is coming up this Sunday, we are reminded."Lest we forget." I got my poppy this afternoon.
There is another fact, I live in Auckland. Often confused with Oakland California.
This is true, some young American man ended up in Auckland, without the tickets and passport. He said, he was flying to Oakland from some American town, heard passengers to Auckland board at gate _____.
He duly fell asleep in the plane and arrived in Auckland. Mysterious as it was, he received a lot of Auckland hospitality. This happened in the 1980s, before your friend Nik came to New Zealand.
Nutty but true.
Cheers,
Ann
http://ann-mythoughtsandphotos.blogspot.com/2010/04/outdoor-wednesday-oakland-and-auckland.html
Thanks Roger, I welcome you to Noo Zealand.
Good and informative post.
Thanks for the tour and all the information "N is for..." Ann beat me to the Oakland/Auckland story I'd heard.
Thank you for visiting Oakland Daily Photo. Hope you'll come by again.
Finally playing catch up.
Great post about New Zealand! I have never been but have distant relatives who live there.
Thanks for sharing all the links.
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