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Hastings Slideshow
Top Hotels in Hastings
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Valdez Motor Lodge Hastings
15 reviews -
Best Paddock Cottage and Vineyards Hastings
2 reviews -
Providencia Country House Hastings
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Angus Inn Hotel Hastings
12 reviews -
Greenhill The Lodge Hastings
7 reviews
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Mangapapa Petit Hotel Hastings
23 reviews
Hastings
Travel Blogs from Hastings, New Zealand
Fruit picking, aka SAS training
This is a top pick! Oh lordy, that was a tough 4 weeks... But good fun in the end! My first day of picking was so hard, I nearly cried! I had thought that it would be difficult, but didn't realise the fact that I was so clumsy meant that I would drop about 50% of the ...
Leaving Lake Waikaremoana
This is a top pick! ... Napier. We had all thoroughly enjoyed the tramp around Lake Waikaremoana. There was no question about why this was one of the Great New Zealand Walks. Now that we had been hiking for three and a half days, our packs felt pretty light on our backs, ...
To the North we go!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 204 Temperature : 24 degrees Weather : Sunny morning, cloudy afternoon......and very windy! For those of you that know Kevin, you will be aware that he hates being late for anything, particularly when travelling anywhere. This is ...
The East Cape
This is a top pick! After the excitement of the rugby we headed off to Martinborough, wine country. We didn't have any wine but we did have the most amazing chocolate cake known to man! We camped overnight at a lovely campsite next to a lake. We took a drive out to a ...
I've not been up to much most things are ...
... then roast them, no boiling first!). We earn't a compliment from the chinese saying it was the best meal they'd had since coming to hastings! Now, if you think we get changeable weather in the UK, you ain't seen nothing. Bearing in mind that it's the ...
Wwoofing Away, 1st stop!
... with some entries...but we shall see...Just thought I'd get one entry in at least for now! Anyway, here I am - in the town of Hastings in the Hawke's Bay Region on the east side of the North Island. And while this is not officially my first stop on ...
Okay it's christmas eve i worked a half-day ...
... ). On to other subjects: Mystic shops, you know, the sort that sell crystals and books on enlightenment. Well, I've noticed that new zealand seems to have a fair few of them (three in hastings alone, a town of 50,000 people). Exactly how selling ...
Road trip with James Laura and Ian
Well we meet up with Ian mate James and what a top guy he is and well as his girl friend, Laura. Well we head straight out, well after a cup of tea and a slice of chocolate cake, HOW I LLLLOOOOOVVVVEEEEE DE CCCAAAAKKKKEEE. Well we head to the nation park ...
Pre-travel entry!!
Been here for nearly a month now!! Came down from the Jones' up in Hamilton just before New Years!! I wanted to start my travels but Vicky made me see that staying and working here to earn a bit more cash before I started my travelling would be good, ...
Waipawa - a brief visit!
... Vicky collected me from the bus stop! Went back to the house, met Margery, their friend visiting from the UK, and learnt of all the new things Charlie could now do since I had been away (he gets into the pool now!) We went off to visit Paul while he was ...
A lazy day in HB
Coming to the end of our meat pie trip downunder, wet but warm today inthe bay. Jenn enjoyed another flat white coffee and I enjoyed another steak and cheese pie. Big Fella's wedding tomorrow @ 5pm @ Sileni resturant, looking forward to it. Cheers G & ...
Right then last day in hastings hoorah! my ...
Right then, last day in Hastings, hoorah! My last day at work was yesterday. We've been getting up successively earlier to try and beat the heat (tops out at about 27 at the moment, ut with no cloud or wind, it's hot, burn time is about 10-11 minutes, ...
Downunder
... by mistake - caught the wrong bus!), Belise and Mexico the second time around, my California roadtrip and finally my first month in New Zealnd. To get you all exicted i also have some photos, but at present am not computer savi enough to know how to add ...
campervan capers!!!
... up and down Te Maka Peak, it was lovely, and hard work!!!! but brilliant views, tonight we are in a backpackers place in hastings cause the van has a clutch problem!!!!!!!!!! but rather it happens now than when we are up some mountain somewhere and it is ...
Today i started my first day in my new ...
... you're thinking). And then there's the cars. A guy I met in Wellington (a professor from Sunderland, studying goldmining in New Zealand, I didn't ask) said that it's kind of like 50's America, with people in the small towns having nothing better to ...
Okay so i've been thinning a week now (only ...
Okay, so I've been thinning a week now (only half-day on Sat). I now have dirt under my nails that's down too deep to reach with a nail brush (not that I can find one to buy) and is going to take a decade to grow out. And I'm picking up a nice ...
Art Deco capital of the world
... I met up with Katie, an English girl that I knew from my travels on the east coast of Australia. Shes been travelling and working in New Zealand so it was great to catch up again. On my second day in Naper I met up with Jay - a friend of my ...
hastings to auckland
well i left hastings at 9am after seeing my kids in the morning and having a frantic morning which started at 6am...i got up to have a shower then decided that id make my last coffee and in a state of rush locked my room door behind me...after ...
‘Palmerston North triangle…’
We awoke early and were at the garage to drop Jenny off at 8a.m. As it’s so early and no ‘attractions’ were open, we decided to have breakfast out today. Helen is treating us to breakfast at Moxies café, which I picked out of the ...
To Hawkes Bay to enjoy Architecture & Wine.
Having left Auckland, we are now journeying south towards Napier , where we will spend a few days visiting this unique area. In order to break the longish journeying, we returned to Taupo, where we had previously stayed to support the Cycle Riders. This ...
A week in Havelock North
... beautiful landscape and very tasty wines! Nous avons passé la semaine dernière à Havelock North qui est situé très près de Hastings et Napier. Jonathan avait un contrat la bas, alors nous en avons profiter pour visiter cette région qui est reconnue ...
Frustration in Apple Land
... of regular Coke! It's the little things, I tell you! What an overall crappy day. I found out later on that one of my new mates here, a Scottish girl named Vicky, seems to think that I'm an angry person! I tried to explain to her that I'm ridiculously ...
race to escape the north island!
that day before arriving in hastings was spent driving up north while comparing new zealand to wales, filled with nothing but fields of grass, sheep and cows! ...