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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Now, you know I’m never short of great café choices in Napier – come lunchtime, this is one of my favourite New Zealand towns! (Check out my last Hawke’s Bay blog here to see a couple of my recommendations). But, out of sheer dedication to you guys, ensuring I leave no possible gem untested, I head [...]
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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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