When I drove up to Old St Mary’s Convent, just 10 minutes out of Blenheim, in the heart of Marlborough’s fabulous wine region, I was taken aback by its splendour.
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What do beavers have to do with Blenheim? Or the Marlborough region, for that matter? That’s what I wondered when I strolled down to central Blenheim’s riverside amphitheatre and came across a bronze sculpture of two beavers. These water-dwelling rodents certainly aren’t a native New Zealand animal or even an introduced one. In fact, I’ve never even seen [...]
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It’s hard to imagine that only five kilometres out of central Blenheim in Marlborough, Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, nestled amongst the award-winning wine growing region, is one of the world’s largest collections of WW1 aircraft memorabilia.
For that reason alone (and the fact Omaka’s well-signposted on SH 6), I wanted to experience what it has to [...]
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I pulled into Blenheim yesterday evening right on sunset – the last part of the journey was just spectacular with the lush grapevines of the Wairau Plain bathed in rich yellow light and the rugged hills behind etched with dark shadows.
This morning I had a quick look around the central streets of the town that [...]
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