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| Thread ID: 143905 | 2017-05-10 00:47:00 | NZders prefer overseas trips? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1435099 | 2017-05-11 02:32:00 | I grew up in a city. I guess. Nelson is where I spent most of my childhood anyway. But we holidayed all over, usually camping. Once with husband we did the same thing, camped. Even when not away, we spent a lot of weekends and days off at the beach or on bush walks and stuff like that. Shopping? Meh. Drinking in bars etc? Meh. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1435100 | 2017-05-11 03:08:00 | Mrs Micro and I spent a good 10 years holidaying in NZ towns. (Between the children leaving home and us having grandparent duties). What we looked for was walking tracks in the area and a pub to have a drink/meal at night. To avoid drink driving we stayed at quite a few pubs. Nothing against motels so long as within walking distance of a pub. The walking tracks are very memorable as are the walks home from the pub in the moonlight, visiting strange supermarkets for breakfast things, and searching for somewhere to have a morning coffee. Messing about doing nothing but enjoying it! New Plymouth was a favourite destination. One of the smallest places would've been Waiau (we stayed at the pub wrecked in the Kaikoura earthquake). Other places: Hawera, Stratford, Kaikohe, Opotiki, Otorohanga, Te Kuiti, Oamaru, Bluff, Hokitika, Te Anau, Waitomo, Wanganui, Taumarunui, Ohakune, Wairoa, Napier, Gisborne. Even Ruatoria, where Donna Awatere, MP, and her family were house guests. Actually on that occasion we had our children with us and were worried they wouldn't eat the one dinner on the menu. To our surprise they gobbled it all up even things they wouldn't eat at home. The Blackball Hilton (as it was formerly called) was another place like that. It had a huge fire, lots of people and a delicious roast (but I had to take the battery out of the fire sensor because of intermittent beeps). We also stayed at Tophouse near St Arnaud, an historic pub with walls of mudbrick. A full house of mainly overseas tourists, all of us gathered round a huge dinner table like in an Agatha Christie movie |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1435101 | 2017-05-11 09:51:00 | I've been around most of NZ,except the deep south.(soon) I find its the people you meet that make it special. lots of them have stories to tell, especially the older people, will tell you history of the locality and special places (not always on the map). I can remember chatting to an old timer in the main street of Blackball, he was an ex miner and talked about the "old days" of mining, one story he told was about being down a narrow drift in the Inanghua mine in 1968 when the earthquake struck. It sounded truly terrifying, caught in a narrow hole deep in the earth with debris flying around, in the dark! I would not have heard this story if I had been rushing around looking for (entertainment) and seeing nothing. Most people have truly interesting information\experiences to relate if you have a sympathetic ear. |
Laggard (17509) | ||
| 1435102 | 2017-05-11 18:34:00 | I don't want to waste my time and money traveling. But I have always thought it was a shame that it is often cheaper to have a holdiay in say Sydney or Melbourne than it is to visit the other island (if you are in the North or South) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1435103 | 2017-05-11 20:21:00 | I have roamed the world before settling here and I really only went to towns to get to transport hubs such as bus/train stations or airports. I like small country towns the best but prefer being out in the countryside | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1435104 | 2017-05-11 23:11:00 | I don't think there is much to lure Kiwi's - particularly the younger lot to the countryside. Unless...if 1. a popular beach - a long tradition of Kiwi's gathering, barbecuing, fishing, swimming, sunbathing, etc 2. A racetrack to place bets. 3. A tavern or pub 4. Or some major "swap-meet" or (music) (sporting ) (car racing) event. 4. To go pig hunting... Some family members do that - but they live work/run/own farms. I use to go eel and fish netting, at the south-eastern beaches around the Clevedon - Ness valley area. Few people about, even the bird reserves, parks, etc until you hit the beaches. Full as; and when driving home during evening, the Clevedon Tavern car park would be jammed packed. Often with farmers and their workers. Pukekohe, Maramarua, etc were similar. Also I believe many city suburbs are a bit spoilt for shopping - Multiple eat-outs, cafes, restaurants, malls, mini-malls, liquor, and retail facilities to keep us within our zones. I now have a fourth massive Pak ' N' Save store (goo.gl) (Street View Ormston Road) (Also at nearby Botany, Pakuranga, Manukau Central) with 5 min local drive at Flat Bush heights. Soon their will be a fifth I believe locally in Manurewa. Also "triple" of major retail stores... |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1435105 | 2017-05-12 22:58:00 | rushing around looking for (entertainment) and seeing nothing Yes it's the simple things one remembers We stayed in a guest house in Greymouth and an American couple put their clothes in the washing machine. Our host said they could go out - she would hang their washing on the line when the machine stopped. They were horrified. So she said she would put it in the drier. But after they left she hung it on the line anyway. When they came back at night they were full of praise at how good the NZ driers were, far better than back home.... |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1435106 | 2017-05-13 03:41:00 | Most Kiwi's (including "citizens" - i.e. non generational NZ's) I know that went and subsequently employed in Australia were quite different status than those that emigrated to UK, Asia, or Europe. Many of the Australian bound ones generally had no formal education. Often ended up in manual labour employment... This included my brother, sister, and a few cousins. All dropped out from College. But through shear hard work are now senior managers, and own small businesses, owning nice homes in the Gold Coast. Most of my Uni/Tech tertiary qualified mates (Electrical Design Engineers, Architect, etc) got lucrative work, beyond Aussie. But some came back to NZ to start professional type businesses. They believed/needed global and practical experience in World Cities (some expanding) to expand their portfolios. Employment Long-term Investment I guess They were all young, with no "tie-downs" - i.e. partners, kids to worry about. Ironically many young foreigners are immigrating to our lands, and are prevalent in many jobs, once the realm of Kiwi's. Includes truck Driving. Aussie are now clamping down on certain ethnic groups, as is USA, to employ their own people first. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1435107 | 2017-05-13 04:08:00 | A lot from overseas have different mindsets of their expectations, those who come over expecting things to be like their home town I just tell them they should of just stayed home, if they are here to see something different then they would find that small piece here. | Kame (312) | ||
| 1435108 | 2017-05-13 07:42:00 | I don't think there is much to lure Kiwi's - particularly the younger lot to the countryside. ... So must be just the young overseas tourists that get into surfing, wild empty beaches, walks/tramps, mountains, bush, rivers and all that stuff we have loads of here. |
pctek (84) | ||
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