It's not the winning it's the taking part........
We left on Friday afternoon and arrived in Havelock about four hours later. We passed some nice towns along the way, One place in particular stood out from the rest. It was a small town called Greytown where, according to our driver, a lot of Wellingtonians go for a days shopping.
The next day we went into Napier and you can read about what we did there on Sharon's Blog by clicking here. While the girls where looking at buttons and the like I took some pics of the town itself. Napier is known for its Art Deco architecture. Here's some pics taken on a rainy day.
As I was taking the pics I noticed the date on all the buildings was the same as per the pic above. Then I remembered reading about Napier in the guide book and why all the building were Art Deco in character. In 1931 Napier was devastated by a terrible earthquake! Click here for the stats and here for some interesting facts. My favourite fact was that the whole area tilted upwards by about seven feet and 2230 hectares of land was raised to sea level.
As we have said previously NZ is known as the shaky isles and I found a good web site here which explains about earthquake prone NZ. There's a direct link here to an animation of how NZ has moved over the last four million years which I think is interesting.
Anyway while we were driving up B, our host, mentioned that the Dalai Lama was giving a talk in NZ soon and by some strange co-incidence I saw the poster below in the shops. Sharon and I hope to go hear him in Welly. I want to ask him if he is a betting man, does he like Tibet!
Later that day we went to the local Te Mata cheese factory- I thought there were saying tomato for a long time. The food was great if you like cheese, obviously. Here's a pic of us outside.
Labels: Hastings, Havelock North, Napier, New Zealand, North Island, Sports
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