After 8 hours beautiful travelling with Magia bus we 19 backpackers arrived to this beautiful township some few hundred kilometers north from Auckland. I was lucky and got a very good apartment for NZD50 only at Bay Adventurer.
On Tuesday I decided to study the first historic capital of NZ until 1840, Russel (or Kororakeka )on the other side of the bay. This little town (1000 inhabitants),once very important one,is now a romantic place for retaired people or honeymooners from different places of the world.
I visited the oldest still working church in NZ., the fine Museum, the Flagstaff Hill,after heavy climbing, where the treaty between England and Maori chiefs was made and The Duke of Marlbrough Hotel bar, which also is the oldest in NZ.This city was once called the Hell Hole of the Pacific, because of the rough life of the whalers and Maori women, who fighted drunk in Dukes's bar.
I there met some local gentlemen,who then invited me to private Swordfish Club,and I was not allowed buy a drink because someone always did. A fine evening.
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