Just like home!
Winya_wynah
Tue 29 Dec 2009 04:17
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Our next stop along the Hawkes Bay coast was
Napier, just like home in so many ways. Tankerton-on-Sea?
There is a Marine Parade, complete with fun fair
for the holiday season.
 A converted Art Deco fire station, arched
windows where the engines were kept, just like Grand Pavilion.
 In fact Napier is known as the Art Deco town of
NZ as the central part and the front were rebuilt in that style
during the '30s after an earthquake and fires in 1931 destroyed many
of the original buildings.
 Views across the bay, showing the blue/green waters
of the Pacific Ocean, OK not quite like Tankerton Bay.
 Then there are the cycle tracks, remeniscent of the
route to Faversham. Orchards (and vineyards) on one side, the river
on the other and equally windy.
 No1 needed a rest after the cycle but was
getting nowhere in this wheel chair, kept the helmet on though just in case she
found the gears!
 Then there was lunch to look forward to, Church Rd
Winery in this case,
 with a glass of the favourite from our
tastings.
 Cheers!
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