Arrowtown’s best eating and drinking establishments

Now we are at Level One and can confidently talk about post-Covid it’s time to get out and start exploring our beautiful country. I’m down in Arrowtown at the moment and recently posted about some of the great things I’ve done over the past week – ‘Queenstown is waiting for you.’ The response to the post was great […]
Arrowtown’s Wet Jacket is a great place to visit all year

If you are on the road in the Queenstown region this holiday season a great place to visit is Wet Jacket. The old Bendemeer wool shed is Wet Jacket’s cellar door and Whitestone’s cheese room. Wet Jacket is tucked in behind Amisfield, at the entrance to Bendemeer housing estate in Arrowtown. The original wool shed […]
Wine tasting at Elephant Hill, Hawkes Bay

It just happened we were in the Hawkes Bay on Father’s Day following a race meeting in Hastings where a friend’s horse ran. So the following morning with a heavy, overcast sky we headed to one our favourite parts of the bay, Te Awanga coast to take in the ocean and ended up at Elephant Hill. […]