It’s a sunny weekend morning, venturing out in the ever-changing Hobsonville community landscape. There’s a gentle mist over the water, and houses mushrooming up all around as this striking new township takes shape. Heading on your path down towards the water, you’re bound for the stylish development at Catalina Bay, in which you’ll find another fine example of New Zealand’s top notch purpose-built weekend farmers’ markets.
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Greytown is one of a collection of towns that cluster in the Wairarapa. It’s a beautiful and largely rural region in the southern parts of the North Island, with a spectacular coastline. And the region is also famous in New Zealand as wine country... who wouldn't want to visit here!
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It’s a bustling, semi-rural, and (the day we visited) splendidly sunny town. Thanks Kerikeri, we really liked the very warm welcome, literally. And it’s surely that almost tropical warmth that explains the orchards and market gardens lining the roads as you make your way into the township. Yes, this must be Northland’s fruit and vegetable paradise.
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