Manor on Parade Napier
283 Marine Parade Napier, North Island, New Zealand
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Mount Deco
We had met the owners of Tongariro Holiday Park at Christmas whilst working at Bowentown and agreed to manage their park for 3 weeks in May whilst they were on holiday. Tongariro is a national park made up of 3 volcanoes (Tongariro, Hgauruhoe and Ruapehu), in summer people flock to the area to walk the 'Tongariro Alpine Crossing' which takes from 6 hours to 3 days depending on the route you choose, in winter people come here to ski. We arrived at the park on 17th March as ...
Winery and Te Mata hill near Napier
... une petite colline… ensuite, les missionnaires français ont commencé à planter les vignes dans la vallée plus bas… elles produisirent du vin excellent pour l’église et les prêtres…qui bientôt ont planté encore plus de vignes et ont commencé à vendre leur vin à l’extérieur… ce vignoble appelé « Mission » est dans un endroit magnifique et maintenant, c’est une compagnie qui s’en occupe et où des conférences et des mariages ...
Go east!
... Island, where if you blinked long enough you would miss it. These were proper towns, with high streets and shops and petrol stations. I was really looking forward to going through Dannevirke, a town that was built by the Danish. However, I was to be disappointed, as my visions of a Danish influenced town were dashed, and it looked just a regular town. Carrying on, I soon came to Hastings, and just beyond that, Napier. After getting a little lost ...
Art Deco, Wine & Coastal Drives
... who would drive if we did the vineyards ourselves. We visit four vineyards and our guide gives a general tour of the area. The soil here is very good for wine as it used to flood and so this has left minerals in the soil that the vines like. Unfortunately the weather isn’t always quite warm enough and so they use windmills and sometimes helicopters to circulate the air and stop a frost destroying the vines in winter. We visit four vineyards – ...
Twin Cities
... city enjoys some of the highest sunshine hours in New Zealand. The climate is warm and relatively dry resulting from its location on the east coast of the North Island. Most of New Zealand's weather patterns cross the country from the west, and the city lies in the rain shadow of the North Island Volcanic Plateau and surrounding ranges such as the ...

