Martinborough Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Well here we are I have crossed the cook straights and have landed in the big smoke! Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and known as the windy city. I arrive at night and it Friday so the place is mad with activity more like the city of boozers? The following day I head out to explore, I visit the harbors side, the Te Papa museum and the c...

A nice weekend took us out once again for some wanderings in the Wairarapa. Our target of the day was the Hai Nui wind farm, nearish Martinborough. Why a wind farm? Well, our friend Frank grew up in the town in Germany where the pylons for the windmills originated. What better reason could you want? Okay, so we went on the flimsiest of pretenses...

After the night of cheesy music and pizzas it was up relatively early to drive to nearby (in New Zealand terms) Martinborough - famed for its vineyards. Our accommodation (Kate's Place) was run by a woman who worked at the Margrain vineyard nearby and she had left a note that we should pop up for a free tasting if we felt like it. We did. We tas...