Help with a travel itinerary to NZ
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@MN5 said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:
@canefan said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:
@nonpartizan said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:
I just realized this trip will be my son's first beer in a pub/bar since the age limit here is 21. Landmark moment!
What is the best beer to celebrate the occasion?
So many choices, depends on what you want. There are lots of craft beers in NZ that are very good, Garage Project, Panhead are a couple I like. There's always basic mainstream beers like Heinekin, Steinlager, Asahi, Corona if you want
Panhead Supercharger is a safe bet.
Crafty enough to be better than anything else mainstream but mainstream enough to be not too Crafty. Win/win.
Panhead XPA goes down like a treat as well but probably hard to find on tap.
But if it's a first beer then you'd have to go with a classic drop.
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@Bovidae said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:
@Nepia That seems to be the upper end price for gourmet pies. And no, I've never paid that much for one!
Surely that's an oxymoron?
Whenever I'm back in NZ I always have a few pies to keep going until the next time I'm back but I stick around the $5 mark (although with inflation on my next trip home this year I may need to bump it up to $6).
Although I have paid circa $10 for a pie in Oz (only because I had a craving after the algorithm kept giving me YT shorts of pies) which was decent but not great.
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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.
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@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)
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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.
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@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/
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Found this site very handy when visiting nz
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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.
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