New Zealand’s capital is a vibrant city with an active arts scene and thriving cafe culture. The CBD is compact. You can wander from Cuba Street with it’s eclectic independent retailers down to Lambton Quay, dubbed ‘The golden mile’ with it’s high-end shops, in around fifteen minutes.
Wellington is also home to Te Papa, the country’s national museum and a fascinating place to spend an afternoon. It’s also worth taking a drive around the southern coast where houses cling to cliffs above a dramatic rocky shore. For a more sedate beach option, Oriental Parade in the city is a lovely spot for a walk and an ice cream.
Thought to have been occupied by Māori since 950AD, the first European settlement of the area that was to become Wellington began in January 1840 when Edwin Gibbon Wakefield, founder of the New Zealand Company and a man of questionable morality, sailed into Port Nicholson with the intention of setting up a town. The company’s methods were dubious to say the least and the whole scheme came close to failure on several occasions due to a lack of suitable building plots and difficulty negotiating land deals with the in situ Māori population. The Wakefields did eventually succeed, although in a modified form from their original plans.
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Travel to Ruakaka, Northland NZ with K A Servian
Ruakaka is beach-side settlement ninety minutes north of Auckland. We built a batch two minutes walk from the beach in 2007 and enjoyed all our family holidays there for six years. The beach at Ruakaka is a stunning, 40km long white sand surf
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Nick Servian photography[/caption]beach. The area has several nice cafes, a motel and a small shopping centre. The city of Whangarei is only half-an-hour north.
To enjoy the true kiwi holiday experience, it pays to check websites like Book-a-Batch where you can hire a holiday house.
The slower pace and long, hot summers make Ruakaka the perfect place to get away from the city and it's so close that you can go for the weekend.
Cruise to New Zealand by Helen Sibritt
Where and how did you go?
This was our trip to New Zealand in 2014 we left Sydney November 21st and returned December 4th
What was your experience?
Fabulous I would recommend cruising to everyone there is so much to do or not to do if you want to take it easy all the cooking and cleaning is done for you beds made bed turned down and the staff on board are to kind considerate and bend over backwards to make your stay enjoyable.
Any advice for people wanting to take this journey?
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