Maybe.
I dont really know.
Never been there- How far away from Auckland is that :-p

Is it a Tissot, Blue face, silver strap???

I was given that for my Birthday ewww

How so??

// I offered to break the eggs in to a bowl & beat them, but they got all shitty.

bahaha! nice one.

yeah Otaki has the most annoying roundabout in New Zealand . . . and when I go through there with my girlfriend we always have to stop so she can go to the stupid bendon shop, and then we get held up at the stupid roundabout, behind stupid trucks . . . .

Actually Otaki isn't that bad, it has a good fish and chip shop, and its got a whole secret town stashed down the road towards the beach. Compared to my nomination, its Paris, Rome and Athens all rolled into one.

That home that was bulldozed - it was the home of Ronald Hugh Morrieson who wrote"The Scarecrow" "Came A Hot Friday" (Billy T James did the film of it) and a few other great pieces of NZ literature
- there's a tiny little plaque near the men's toilet, just to ensure the past isn't completely forgotten...yay Hawera...
Hawera is a bit of a time warp, like so many places in Taranaki - unless you escape you get stuck there forever, either married, job, kids or dead in a car accident or in jail...

Aha! Yeah, that's the one, thanks for setting the story straight.

Ya speaking of time-warp, I hear that people in Cromwell have just started to use electricity and cars :-p

"This is a local shop, for local people. Nothing for you herrrrrrrrre!"

R rolling weirdos

and first five minutes of the film proper here...

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Oh, poor old town of my birth, people are so unkind to you. It has some things going for it - an old style cinema with a pretty eccentric lineup of movies, a decent cafe next door, the Eastern Southland Art gallery, an annual hotrod convention, an OK bar (Howl at the Moon). Oh, and did I mention I was born there?

//Eastern Southland Art gallery

don't they have a stunning collection of some sort of work? And a big donor in John Money?

That said, the last time I spent in Gore was buying a pie (it was disgusting) on the way to see Shihad in Invers. On the way home I wanted to take the alternative route, but the person I was with thought I'd get lost. Pah! I'm the King of Scenic Detours (although being in the dark, the aurora was most of the scenicness, but 'not Gore' could be construed as scenic as well).

God..I forgot Huntley - for some reason we'd always have a toilet stop there before hitting the motorway into Auckland - the ones by the river -(*shiver*) - I will always be scarred....

my great grandfather used to live in Huntly, when I was a little kid we used to go down there. There is nothing to do there, and for child, it is REALLY boring. ,

I don't want to diss Huntly too much, but it gets really cold, and there isn't much to do

Ahh Hunterville. Home of the Huntaway statue. As a Huntaway owner.. I shed a tear and salute...

But you're right. So damn right. Especially driving through that area at night when it's raining. Blech.

I spent half an hour in Hyde over summer (I was biking some of the rail trail). The coffee was definitely poor enough to pull it down a few (it resurrected my previous resolution to only drink black coffee in small towns), but it was pleasant enough. The reality is, I should have had some beer. Actually, I got heaps of mushrooms between Hyde and the railway disaster monument, so that's some good...

Next you'll be pointing the finger at Wanganui!!!

I like Hunterville. I've had many a good time there.

// Foxton - damn straight

haha true