Heading to this Central Otago town, you’ll be struck by fruit….fruit growing in the fields around you, fruit at the roadside stalls you pass, and then the most enormous fruit when you hit the town. Here’s Cromwell, the fruit bowl of the south - and a town with a really interesting history of striking gold and of moving town.
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A summer visit to Central Otago means summer stone fruit. And so the trip across from Queenstown, through the Gibbston Valley and Kawarau Gorge, to Cromwell. An extremely large fruit sculpture greets our arrival, and we know we're there. Time for roadside stall stops, and stone fruit splendour. Peaches, nectarines, plums....
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