If you’ve planning to visit Napier, in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay, next summer, start planning your visit now – yes, now! As locals will tell you, from Christmas right through to the end of summer, barely a weekend passes by without some kind of must-do event. Yes, Napier is a place that totally buzzes through [...]
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Napier is a pretty happening town in general, but the Ahuriri area – tucked discretely around the other side of Bluff Hill – is particularly so! Here you’ll find a cluster of upmarket bars and restaurants, along with quaint little B&Bs, and high quality hotel and apartment accommodation, all in a charmingly historic area bordered [...]
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New Zealand is the best place in the world to play a round of golf! Well, we already knew that, but it’s been confirmed by UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has named Cape Kidnappers golf course in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay the world’s top golf course.
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Napier never fails to surprise! Visiting Hawke’s Bay this time round, I found myself on a treasure hunt for an off-the-beaten track café. It all started quite a few months back, when a friend mentioned a spot that I just had to visit next time I was in Napier. Missionview Gardens, the place was called, and [...]
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Napier is always hard to leave. Okay, so I was born here, but I’m not biased … honest! There’s just something about this place. It’s the perfect concoction of environment, climate and culture, all wrapped up in a town that’s small enough to wander around with ease but big enough so that it’s pretty hard [...]
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Here in the Hawke’s Bay caffeine-lovers are spoilt for choice. Aside from the wineries, boutique breweries (anyone for fresh cider?), distilleries and fruit growers the region is famous for, it’s easy to find a first-class coffee.
Usually when I’m visiting Napier I head to Ujazi in the centre of town, but friends have told me I [...]
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