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Napier Slideshow
Napier
Travel Blogs from Napier, New Zealand
night in Napier
... a short time here. There's a lot of places I haven't been to but I'm not sure if I'll ever see a country as beautiful as New Zealand. It was about 4 hours up and over 2 small mountain ranges and then into the plains where I came to the ocean and the ...
FIRE FIRE FIRE
... we packed up and headed out down towards Napier. For the most part its just a long drive, but we did stop off at New Zealand's longest wharf at 660 meters! And then had subway for lunch in Gisbourne by the river's edge. Finally we rolled into ...
On the road again...
am in napier now, as you know. Its very nice, got here last night at about 8.30, so just went staright to the hostel, watched some tv and to bed. Its raining today though, so i went out for a little walk, but came back as was getting very wet!!! hopefully ...
Cape Kidnappers
... by sea" journey resumed at Auckland, where I boarded the Aenne, Napier as that's where I left the Manet, Port Chalmers where I leave New Zealand, or Melbourne because that's as far west as I got by sea so far. (I've obviously been sitting in my cabin too ...
Napier
Napier is a really lovely city on the Pacific East Coast (so, so blue!). It was pretty much destroyed by an earthquake in 1931 and was rebuilt in what was the modern style of the time, 'Art Deco'. I'm not usually fussed about architecture, but some of ...
Shake It, Baby, or the Drosh of Napier
... away listening to Neil Young's "Harvest" album on the mp3 player. It was definitely A Moment. I think Heaven must look like New Zealand. Green green green with sheep and cows and rolling hills and big puffy clouds. I'm here in Wellington until ...
Lake Waikaremoana
We arrived at Lake Waikaremoana and were amazed by the views. The day was perfect warm & sunny and the views were outstanding! The campsite was right on the lakeside so we set up tent and went on a walk that led up from the camp through the bush and ...
Rain
... to walk into town in the rain. when we got there we saw a leaflet advertising a tour around the town showing the history and the new art deco buildings, but we had been walking in the rain for enough at that time. we hid in a pub while we had some dinner ...
Nip to Napier
... the viewing point. It was a great photo spot and I kindly took a picture for a German couple who were eating raw carrots. Once at Napier it was a bit of a case of running out of time again - we'd got our dates mixed up so already had to miss out ...
The Earthquake City
... in the morning which strenthened our arms quite a bit. In the afternoon Ruth and I went to visit a museum about Napier's history and particularly about the earthquake of 1931 (approximately 7.8 on the richter scale. I'll get some more information to ...
Fuss and Penny's Wedding
... constructed Buenos Aires suit for the wedding. The venue for the big day was Craggy Range Vineyard. For those outside of New Zealand, vineyards have replaced Churches as the funky places to get married in the NZ summer. Craggy Range was certainly as ...
Napier
... little city and it gets really good weather. That is why it is a really big wine region her. I spent three days here in Napier Prison which is now a backpackers. The people who run it are nice especially Bonnie, she is lovely. Only thing was there were ...
Art Deco and Cafe' Latte!
Napier is a small town of not particular interest, apart from the fact that it was destroyed by a massive Earthquake in 1930 and re-built in art deco style. Which of course is very interesting...for about five minutes. The dolphins in the bay look at you ...
Cool city
... golf wasn't dangerous! Managed to beat Allan even with his cheating ways of kicking the ball into the hole! We finished off our trip to Napier with a drive up to the summit for a view over the city and a chance for Aldo to take more interesting ...
Great Walk Number One
Kia Ora, von Napier bin ich die Kueste hinauf nach Wairoa gefahren. Von dort aus kann man den Lake Waikaremoana erreichen, ein NP und einer der Great Walks Neuseelands. Es gibt insgesamt neun sogenannte Great Walks in Neuseelands, drei davon auf der ...
Arrived in Napier
... zu Napier hochladen, Napier ist ziemlich fotogen, vor allem mit dem guten Wetter:-) und ich habe zuviele Fotos gemacht). Gruss Ralf P.S. Fun Fact New Zealand has about 14000 Earthquakes each year. Only 200 are strong enough to be felt ...
Napier
... to the NZ v England ODI at McLean Park. It was a great, exciting match with it all resting on the last ball of the game - New Zealand drawing the match with a run of the last ball. I leave tomorrow on the Intercity bus to Taupo and then back to ...
Finished
... , so dass ich den Job jetzt angeboten bekomme, muss nur noch in Wellington unterschreiben. Faszinierenderweise kennt mein Vermittler weder Napier noch Lake Waikaremanao, er dachte, dass liegt auf der Suedinsel und war ganz verbluefft, dass ich jetzt zur ...
Napier
... some great pictures of the port, those guys are exporting some timber!! Following that we passed the tobaco factory which is a typical Napier building, with the traditional Art Deco finish on the front. We then went and visited a couple of wineries, ...
Napier for a bit of art deco culture
... though. We drove up the next day to Napier in the company of our on and off travel companions Juliet and Peet. Napier was another intreging wee place. All the buildings are in art-deco style due to the whole city being rebuilt after ...
Sunshine, Rain and Rainbows
... and introduced me to a tuatara, a strange creature that was contemporary with dinosaurs and has its own isolated branch of the reptile family. New Zealand is an interesting place like that. It's been so isolated for so long that it has all kinds of unique ...
I'm in Prison....
i am behind bars everyone. i'm innocent i didnt do it honest. he jumped. only joshing! i am currently staying in new zealands oldest prison in napier and it is soooooo cool. everyone here is so friendly! and the place is really interesting. it was used up ...
Penguins in wheelchairs
... of settled but that wasn't necessarily a good thing. Ben & Rach dropped us off at the bus and we made our way up to Napier, Art Deco city and home to several disabled penguins who we'd arranged to go and cuddle the next day. It was good to be on ...
Pistols and Planning
We have a lovely lady at work, she is from Pretoria in South Africa. Well spoken and very pleasant I told her yesterday that I planned to ride through Africa on my motorbike. She said "oh you will have to stop at my mother in laws house, she will ...
Oh Sweet Little Sandflies
Kia Ora, am dritten Tag hatte ich die laengste Wegstrecke. Da der Weg aber immer am See entlang fuehrt, gibt es nur wenige Steigungen (ab und zu muss man ein Steilufer hinauf). Es gab einige nette Straende, aber der See ist doch sehr frisch und ...
Welcome back to the 1930's
... the region is filled with vineyards, so in the end we settled for a campsite instead. The next morning we headed into Napier – which is a fabulous little town. Unfortunately it was flattened by a earthquake in 1931, killing over 250 people. Somebody ...
Napier
... Napier itself was not of great interest, but we stayed in our first "Backpacker" hostel and enjoyed mussel fritters from the dockside. Napier had been rebuilt in the 1930s, after a massive earthquake destroyed the city, in an art-deco style, but it was ...
Exploring Art Deco in Napier
... the art deco styled buildings that are found here. We browsed the shops but some were closed as it's a holiday in New Zealand today (Waitangi Day). We walked to the Centennial Gardens, a beautiful garden with ponds and amazing waterfall which falls ...