Napier

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Stayed for 2 nights at this delightful art deco city (well town really by our standards as it is no bigger than Newark with one third the population). Parts of the city were destroyed in an eathquake in 1931 so it was rebuilt by imigrants in the art deco style. Although many of the shops are under new ownership, the original names appear on the nameplates above. Great place for shopping, especially house furnishing.

Had Sunday lunch at Mission wines, the oldest winery in NZ. For affictionados this is the Hawkes Bay wine region. A pre lunch tasting session was neccessary to narrow down our choise with the food which was excellent.

Heading south again to the wine region of Wairarapa (Masterton, Carteron and Martingborough).

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Photos

Mission Winery
A pre lunch pose

Vines aplenty
I offered to stay for the harvest

Comments

[Louise]

Vines
Strange how your journey around NZ seems to focus on vineyards - can't imagine why!

[barryandsue]

Winefest
As we can't bring them back with us, we're trying as many wines as we can whilst we're here - would be rude not to!