Help with a travel itinerary to NZ

[dogmeat]

[dogmeat]

I actually struggle to remember the last time I had a really good takeaway pie

[mikedogz]

Some thing to check out if in Wellington.

The Wellington bakery creating new pie flavours nearly every day

Korean Gochujang pork belly is popular and people go bonkers for the Big Mac in a pie. But the pie de jour is their beef brisket with jalapeno bacon relish.

[mikedogz]

When you are in Hamilton on the 19th of July, There will be amateur club rugby on during the afternoon if you wanted to check that out.

[taniwharugby]

@Tim yeah she is a long drive upto Cape Reinga.

@canefan I took the kids from Whangarei to Cape Rienga and back in a day, pretty much a day trip! Not sure I'd do the trip by bus, even longer and then stuck to thier itintery.

Nice to break up the long trip with a visit to the Te Paki Sand Dunes.

Driving is the best and worst part of visiting NZ; you get to see so much more, but you have to bloody drive pretty much everywhere!

Second @dogmeat about Matakohe Kauri Museum, excellent! Similarly the one at Waitangi, make them 'must sees' if you are hitting this part of the country, if you are driving this part with time (that you probably wont have) head down the more rugged and isolated west coast and visit Hokianga and the Waipoua Forest with Tane Mahuta.

I am yet to go into the Hundertwasser Art Museum here, I'm not big on art, but IMO the building itself is the crown jewel, again, if you are here, the rolling ball clock near the Clock Museum is a fascinating piece of work (only a few mins walk between, with some good eating spots on the way)

[MN5]

@dogmeat said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:

I actually struggle to remember the last time I had a really good takeaway pie

Pepper steak from BP Connect. You’ll need two to fill you up. You’re welcome

[mikedogz]

A couple of these pubs you could visit on this North Island based trip

Five of the best classic Kiwi pubs

According to travel writer Peter Janssen it must be built before 1967, have been continuously serving beer and have some architectural integrity.

[nonpartizan]

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[Dodge]

Hangi in Rotorua, sledge the Kaituna on a body board, float through the waitomo caves, swim with dolphins in Kaikoura, ski or snowboard cardrona, sky dive in wanaka, bungy jump in queenstown, canoe in milford sound.

[Dodge]

just googled sledging the Kaituna for a nostalgic look, and it seems you can't sledge the waterfall anymore?! WTF?! Say it ain't so people

[nostrildamus]

@Dodge said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:

just googled sledging the Kaituna for a nostalgic look, and it seems you can't sledge the waterfall anymore?! WTF?! Say it ain't so people

you mean this? https://www.klook.com/activity/54853-kaituna-river-sledging-rotorua/

[Dodge]

no it seems you can still sledge the river but the trips seem to start below the waterfall, and you can only do that by raft. Sorry for derailing the thread though!

[Tim]

Photo taken by a friend a couple of days ago on the Coromandel:

Not bad.

[dogmeat]

@Tim Must be fake news. I haven't seen a sky like that this 'summer'

[Billy Tell]

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I’d agree that if you limited time stick to one island. Personally I loved the car trip from gisborne round the east cape. But that was about 2004 so things might have changed. If you have time using small roads is fun. Remember doing Napier to beaches on the hawkes bay coast driving thru the absolute back roads in the wop wops with farmers looking at us wtf but you see off the beaten track scenery.

[taniwharugby]

@dogmeat mostly been too windy up here for the clouds to stick around....

[nonpartizan]

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[Stockcar86]

If passing through Hawke's Bay, check out this page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/758846289555425

General consensus seems to be Shaeno's Brisket pie as being the best (and it is amazing) but I prefer the corned beef (with vegetables, mustard sauce, potato top) from BJ's Bakery

[Bones]

@Stockcar86 noice! Is it proper corned beef?

[Stockcar86]

@Bones if by proper you mean not out of a tin, then yes