Saturday, February 28, 2015

Day 21 New Zealand's Hamilton and Cambridge and a dip of Serendipity

Our first stop was Hamilton to visit another map store; The Map and Chart Shop. The owner, Murray was very friendly and offered us some advice on mounting maps to wood blocks.

There's a famous Botanical Garden in Hamilton with various sub-gardens. This first one is an English Tudor Garden. It has only been open a month.







The next garden is a Maori Garden patterned after the indigenous people of New Zealand.












Next came our dip of serendipity. On the way from Hamilton to Cambridge we stopped at this little cafe.. I love soft ice cream and I love raspberries. But I never thought I would see a way to combine them. They do that here. They took a big scoop of fresh raspberries and dropped it in the soft serve machine. The result was pure heaven.
That's our little blue rental car in the carpark.





We actually like the town of Cambridge better than Hamilton. Here's their Art Deco clock tower and the restaurant across the street is Nash's where we have just had the best meal of the trip.


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