Hello (kia ora) from New Zealand. We are here for Christmas and New Year. Unlike our other stops this feels very like England. Apart from the warm, sunny weather Christmas is like home. Turkey, christmas pudding, mince pies, carols on the green, all the same. Swimming snorkelling and lunch outside on Christmas day are rather different!
New Zealand is slightly larger than Great Britain but it is divided into two large islands, north and south island. They are separated by The Cook Straight, named after Captain Cook when he surveyed the coast in 1769.
The capital of New Zealand is Wellington which is on North Island next to The Cook Straight. We flew into the largest city, Auckand, on North Island, which has a population of a million, a quarter of the total population of four million people in New Zealand. Britain has a population of over sixty million people in a smaller land area so it does not feel crowded here! When Cook arrived the native population were a polynesian race called Maoris. A treaty was signed between The British and The Maoris and today about 15% of the population are Maori.
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