Hot Travel Tips for the potential Northland traveller
1. There are two pizza places in Kerikeri, where my parents now live, of the two Pizza Hut is definitely the lesser option. The real travel tip here is on Sunday if you are hoping for an affordable meal definitely don;t think that pizza is going to be that meal, unless you really love the worst tasting pizza of your life.
2. Puhoi is a neat place to stop, beautiful hillsides of native bush and quaint tearooms, however be aware that the gorgonzola will stink out your mother in law's car for the rest of the journey.
3. The flame trees are a real highlight.
4. If you want to see parrots, and not that we got to see the parrots, but if you were potentially of a mindset where spending top dollar to see parrots was in the itinerary, and hadn't seen parrots in captivity within someone's section that has been transformed into a potential top tourist tip, and by "someone", I am naturally referring to a Northland businessman/policeman, then Kerikeri can complete all these dreams. Truly.
5. The Treaty Grounds are bloody pricey. Not that that they were not worth the big dollars, they are pristine.
6. Don't buy heels from Aliexpress, unless you have two left feet. A lesson Maxine Phillips learned the hard way.
7. You get Fudge on the Kerikeri to Auckland flight; but, disappointingly, not on the Nelson to Auckland leg of the journey. Not that the fudge got eaten,