We thought we would head South today to Whangarei ‘pronounced Fangerie’. The WH is always silent and replaced with a letter F, it’s a little confusing but the locals understand.
The road South takes your past Kerikeri and then through ‘
It’s an interesting little town and the same place where the world famous toilets are that we photographed earlier on in our trip up here. The public toilet block was created by Friedrich Hundertwasser, a painter, architect, ecologist and philosopher who lived here.
Whangarei is quite a large town if you include all the new out of town shopping malls etc. The main town itself is quite old but it is not an attractive town, the river that flows through it was low as the tide was out and did not look as nice as it could. We left the main town and headed off to the ‘Heads’ which is about a forty minute drive along the coast through small villages and the usual mixture of sheep and cows and the occasional Llamas. We stopped near the end of the road at a little café for lunch which overlooked the bay, it was most enjoyable and a shame that the sun had gone in.
There was also a sign pointing you in the direction of a lookout where you can see the petrol refining plant, we decided that we would give that a miss.
The journey back was uneventful and we stopped in Kerikeri for some shopping and also visited a large camping shop and looked at equipment. They did not take kindly to my suggestion that as it was Christmas that a 20% sale reduction would be in order. No humour these people.
We arrived back and shortly afterwards Noel received a call from
We tested a bottle of the Corbans White Label Cabernet Merlot that we had bought cheap at PackNSave for $5.99 (around £ 2.30) and we both agreed it was very good indeed. In fact it is the same wine that Noel’s barber recommended earlier in the week. Must remember to get some more. The bottle says Corbans New
