Cape Kidnappers gannets, love for life

While recently staying at The Farm at Cape Kiddnappers enjoying a blissful weekend I walked over the working farm to the gannet colony. You will be pleased to know thousands of gannets enjoy some of New Zealand’s prime coastline, arriving each year to meet up with their life-long partner, mate and raise their chicks together, as any 21st century […]
Relax at the Chateau Tongariro Hotel and enjoy their scrumptious high tea

If you are travelling anywhere around the Central Plateau, in the North Island of New Zealand, call into the magnificent Chateau Tongariro Hotel for high tea. I’ve just had a delightful experience with my mother in the Ruapheu Lounge, which for want of a better description is the hotel’s living room. It’s a welcoming and […]