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The Newest City in the World (at the time)
... distinction of being “The Newest City in the World” at the time - there are also some buildings which survived the earthquake dotted here and there.
The centre of the town is quite small and seemed very quiet which made it a lot easier to stand in the middle of the road taking photos of buildings! We loved the little details on the buildings - the lamps and the carvings- and also the pastel colours they were all painted in. It seems that when ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR
... nur noch wunderschoen war. den tag danach sind wir zu den wasserfaellen gefahren von denen man runterspringen kann. des is "new zealand pure" ;) aber des wars etz auch mal wieder mit abenteuer und ausfluegen weils ab morgen wieder aufs weingut zum arbeiten geht. also noch mal die besten wuensche fuers neue ...
Wine and whine makes it all fine
... us that once we've visited a couple of estates we'll all feel like family... or even be drunkly mistaking each other for it at least.
We should mention now that we discussed what to expect of this wine tour at quite some length the previous day and that we came to the conclusion that, quote: "they probably don't give you that much free wine to drink... afterall how would they make any money". Well.
We also tell one another that "we will not be ...
Hanging out in Hawkes Bay
... eeeh, that tastes like pop.
KK: We had a last walk on Napier’s black stoned beaches, mesmerised by the churning green sea rolling the pebbles under a clear blue sky. Then we went for a pint. I went back to take a picture of the bar and met Geoff from Newcastle who was celebrating his retirement with a trip round the world. Mrs Geoff (we were not formally introduced) said she preferred the 3 Mile Inn in Gosforth. Ahh you can take people out of ...
New Zealand: The Land of the long white sneeze
... some stunning rugby against a terrible French team that somehow just managed to win (yes, we are in denial and so I am not going to say any more than that). She’d had a few grassy sauvignons and seemed to be very bold. She wanted to know “why we hadn’t gone fishing as we had told her we were going to”. Reason being of course that we weren’t who she thought we were. Anyway we are now friends for life and I implore anyone that ever ...
This lodge was formerly known as: The Master's Lodge

