From Gran Canaria to New Zealand We are on our way to New Zealand from the Canary islands. We live here, but are Norwegian. We work here as; he - nurse, she - teacher. karen lived in New Zealand years and years ago, and now we are on our way back - so karen can "show off" this lovely country of her youth.

The Waitangi treaty was signed here in 1840 between maori chiefs and the British crown. The first thinking that the crown would protect their land, the latter not quite thinking along the same lines.

Anyway - the Waitangi treaty is important and referred to still as "The birthplace of our nation, a place all New Zealanderes belong to and where our people advance together."   An interesting place. Website: www.waitangi.net.nz