Cheviot NZ - A long weekend in Cheviot
Cheviot NZ -
The arrival of caravans at Gore Bay is as sure a sign that summer’s on its way as new lambs and daffodils.
Cheviot NZ is an ideal weekend break – just far enough out of the city to warrant packing the car, and not so far that you’re chewing into valuable holiday time behind the wheel.
Once a small rural service town and pie stop, Cheviot has shaken off its chrysalis to become a fully fledged weekend destination with eclectic shops, an astounding number of cafes, a diverse coastline and impressive rivers - all framed by rolling green farmland and a mountain backdrop.
Whether you’re camping, staying in one of the town’s three motels or renting a holiday home at Gore Bay, eating out is a must, and the lunch menus at Two Rivers café, The Paddock or The Mainline Station, a few minutes south of Cheviot, will fit the bill. Magpie’s Rest and Cheviot’s Tearooms complete the culinary picture, along with the award winning Harris Meat butchery and delicatessen. Dinner is served at the Cheviot Trust Hotel every night of the week.
A stroll down Cheviot’s tree-lined main street takes in two art galleries, both exhibiting New Zealand artists as well as local and imported jewellery, a stylish gift and home ware store, and the Cheviot Museum, a small building housing a large collection of artefacts from Cheviot’s early days.
Pack the walking shoes to explore the wooded Cheviot Hills Reserve’s new Ready Money trail, or tackle some of the tracks at Gore Bay. For the cyclists, there are excellent rides for both mountain and road bikes – and with a bit of route planning, you can tailor your ride to end with coffee and cake back in town. There’s also a 9 hole golf course on the outskirts of town.
Both Hurunui and Waiau rivers meet the sea near Cheviot NZ, providing fishing and jet boating enthusiasts with plenty of action. The sea temperatures may still be cold but that doesn’t stop surfers from catching waves at Gore Bay. Those who prefer dry land have Gore Bay’s fossil rich rocks, Manuka Bay and Nape Nape to explore.
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New Zealand Campervan Holiday 2010 Ashburton Christchurch Gondola Rangiora to Cheviot
Metal detecting finds are shown at the end of the video.
The Christchurch Gondola was something we had put off visiting on our previous New Zealand visits. This time, good weather or bad, we had determined to make the trip. As you will see, we were not disappointed.
The remainder of the video shows other places we hadn't been to before.
New Zealand in 19 Days
3 weeks driving 4.000 KMs around New Zealand's south and north islands.
Day 1 Auckland
Day 2 Hobbiton and Rotorua
Day 3 White island
Day 4 Blue Lake & Tamaki Maori Village
Day 5 Huka Falls & Taupo
Day 6 Tongariro Alpine Crossing
Day 7 Wellington & Picton
Day 8 Car broke down & Drive to Cheviot
Day 9 Fairlie
Day 10 Lake Tekapo & Mount John Observatory
Day 11 Lake Pukakki and Queentown
Day 12 Milford Sound
Day 13 Queenstown Kiwi Birdlife Park
Day 14 Queenstown Hill & Arrowtown
Day 15 Christchurch
Day 16 Akaroa
Day 17 Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway
Day 18 Christchurch
Day 19 Fly back to Auckland
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We spent 2 weeks road tripping the beautiful and diverse New Zealand landscapes and cities, 3000+ miles and over 50 different stops and locations.
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Ribbonwood Country House, Cheviot, New Zealand, HD Review
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Set in peaceful surroundings in the heart of Cheviot, Ribbonwood Country House boasts a spa and wellness centre and free WiFi. All rooms feature a patio, mountain views, bath robes and slippers.
Ribbonwood House is a 10-minute drive from the Waiau River and a 15-minute drive from Manuka Bay. Amberley is a 45-minute drive away.
All air-conditioned rooms feature a flat-screen TV, seating area and tea and coffee making facilities. They also offer an outdoor dining area and ironing facilities. The bathroom has free toiletries.
You can enjoy a relaxing massage or socialise in the shared lounge and library areas. There is also a terrace and a guest laundry. Guests enjoy free parking.
A 24-hour check in and a concierge service is available. Also on offer area BBQ facilities, packed lunches and room service.
6300 km all over New Zealand in 17 days - Roadtrip Timelapse
Roadtrip New Zealand : 6300 km all over New Zealand in 17 days
Day 1: Auckland - Miranda
Day 2: Miranda - Thames - Coromandel - Hahei - Hot Water Beach - Athenree
Day 3: Athenree - Tauranga - Rotorua - Taupo - Motutere
Day 4: Motutere - Tongariro National Park - Martinborough - Palliser Bay- Featherston - Upper Hut
Day 5: Wellington
Day 6: Upper Hut - Wellington - Cook Strait - Picton - Havelock - Blenheim - Kaikoura
Day 7: Kaikoura - Hundalee - Cheviot - Waipara - Amberley - Christchurch - Rakaia - Ashburton - Geraldine
Day 8: Geraldine - Fairlie - Tekapo - Mt John - Pukaki - Mount Cook - Pukaki
Day 9: Twizel - Omarama - Lindis Valley - Cromwell - Kawarau Gorge - Gibbston - Frankton - Queenstown
Day 10: Queenstown - Devils Staircase - Kingston - Garston - Parawa - Mossburn - Te Anau - Te Anau Downs - Eglinton Valley - Mirror Lakes - Te Anau Downs
Day 11: Te Anau Downs - Milford Sound - Te Anau - Mossburn - Kingston - Frankton - Arrow Junction - Cardrona - Wanaka
Day 12: Wanaka - Albert Town - Lake Hawea - The Neck - Makarora - Haast Pass - Haast - Paringa - Fox Glacier
Day 13: Fox Glacier - Franz Josef Glacier - Whataroa - Harihari - Ross - Hokitika - Kumara Junction - Greymouth - Stillwater - Mawheraiti - Reefton - Murchison - Lake Rotoroa - St Arnaud - Lake Rotoiti - Hope - Richmond - Motueka - Kaiteriteri - Motueka
Day 14: Motueka - Richmond - Nelson - Havelock - Picton - Wellington - Porirua - Paraparaumu - Levin - Foxton - Whanganui
Day 15: Whanganui - Cape Egmont - Egmont NP - Inglewood - The Three Sisters - Mokau - Te Kuiti - Kihikihi - Cambridge - Matamata
Day 16: Matamata - Hobbiton - Cambridge - Hamilton - Auckland - Orewa - Whangarei - Kawakawa - Paihia
Day 17: Paihia - Kawakawa - Whangarei - Orewa - Auckland
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Broke for Free - Night Owl
Ari de Niro - Put The Hammer Down
Ari de Niro - That Mexican Thing
Ari de Niro - Dubs Up
Broke For Free - Summer Spliffs
Broke For Free - As Colorful As Ever
Broke For Free - Juparo
Broke For Free - Juparo
Ari de Niro - Questing
Fleslit - 1201 AM
The Impossebulls - Pope
The Impossebulls - 5 x 5
Ari de Niro - Freedom Drops
Ari de Niro - Excellent Adventure
Ari de Niro - Nothin Doin 1.3
Ari de Niro - Rooftops
Broke For Free - Fuck It
Broke For Free - Sidewalk Chalk
Broke For Free - Building the Sun
Broke For Free - Lonely Organ
Ari de Niro - Cash Rules
Ari de Niro - Crate Diggin
Fleslit - Yummy
Fleslit - MIA
Hogan Grip - Stance Gives You Balance
Gable - humm ok
Gable - motu ok
Gable - bogs ok
Fleslit - Time Flies
Fleslit - Paris
Fleslit - Out Da City
Fleslit - Back On the Wall
Ryan Little - Ball Drop
Ryan Little - Drop Top
Ryan Little - Bass Games
Ryan Little - Conscious
Ryan Little - Earth Wind Fire
Ryan Little - Kickback
Ryan Little - Infektious
Ryan Little - Road Trip
Ryan Little - Summertime Boom Bap
Ryan Little - Power Trip
Ryan Little - Paradise
Ryan Little - Lost Memories
Ryan Little - Moana
Ryan Little - High Times
Ryan Little - Lost Memories
Ryan Little - Stuck
Ryan Little - Traffic Jam
Ryan Little - Two Step
Ryan Little - Valley of Shadows
Ryan Little - Vesuvius
Ryan Little - We Know
Ryan Little - Sunday Vibes
Ryan Little - Ting Tings
Ryan Little - Too Far Gone
Ryan Little - Too Far Gone
DRVN - The Vent
Yshwa - Where The Sunshine Goes
Yshwa - Looking at my Bluntlike the Holy Grail
Yshwa - Good Lookin
Yshwa - BITCHEZ
Yshwa - Do it for Me
Colectivo Etreo - Las Cosas
DRVN - Seed
DRVN - Magnum Opus
Broke For Free - Something Elated
Ari de Niro - Nothin Doin 1.3
Skoz - Sympho Nick
Skoz - Flash Back NY
Fleslit - Time Flies
Fleslit - Paris
Roadtrip New Zealand - Day 7 (Kaikoura - Geraldine)
6300 km all over New Zealand in 17 days
Day 7: Kaikoura - Hundalee - Cheviot - Waipara - Amberley - Christchurch - Rakaia - Ashburton - Geraldine
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Ari de Niro - Cash Rules
Ari de Niro - Crate Diggin
Fleslit - Yummy
Fleslit - MIA
Hogan Grip - Stance Gives You Balance
Places to see in ( Santa Monica - USA )
Places to see in ( Santa Monica - USA )
Santa Monica is a coastal city west of downtown Los Angeles. Santa Monica Beach is fringed by Palisades Park, with views over the Pacific Ocean. Santa Monica Pier is home to the Pacific Park amusement park, historic Looff Hippodrome Carousel and Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. Next to the pier is Muscle Beach, an outdoor gym established in the 1930s. In the city center, Bergamot Station houses several art galleries.
Santa Monica was originally developed as a seaside retreat at the turn of the 20th century. The railroad owners built the first version of the amusement park on Santa Monica pier as an attraction to fill empty train seats on weekends. Santa Monica grew into an urban, eclectic, and prosperous beach city whose real estate values are amongst the most pricey in the world. Santa Monica is a very desirable city whose people are drawn to its accessibility and its progressiveness as a community. Today, Santa Monica is a mixture of very affluent, single-family neighborhoods, renters drawn by the high quality of life, lifelong surfers, young professionals and students.
The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in 1909. The La Monica Ballroom on the pier was once the largest ballroom in the US and the source for many New Year's Eve national network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar Shop is a leading acoustic performance space as well as retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the California Heritage Museum and the Angels Attic dollhouse and toy museum. The New West Symphony is the resident orchestra of Barnum Hall. They are also resident orchestra of the Oxnard Performing Arts Center and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Santa Monica has three main shopping districts, Montana Avenue on the north side, the Downtown District in the city's core, and Main Street on the south end. Each has its own unique feel and personality. Montana Avenue is a stretch of luxury boutique stores, restaurants, and small offices that generally features more upscale shopping. The Main Street district offers an eclectic mix of clothing, restaurants, and other specialty retail.
The Downtown District is the home of the Third Street Promenade, a major outdoor pedestrian-only shopping district that stretches for three blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and Broadway (not the same Broadway in downtown and south Los Angeles). Third Street is closed to vehicles for those three blocks to allow people to stroll, congregate, shop and enjoy street performers. Santa Monica Place, featuring Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in a three-level outdoor environment, is at the Promenade's southern end. After a period of redevelopment, the mall reopened in the fall of 2010 as a modern shopping, entertainment and dining complex with more outdoor space. Santa Monica hosts the annual Santa Monica Film Festival.
Palisades Park stretches out along the crumbling bluffs overlooking the Pacific and is a favorite walking area to view the ocean. It includes a totem pole, camera obscura, artwork, benches, picnic areas, pétanque courts, and restrooms. Tongva Park occupies 6 acres between Ocean Avenue and Main Street, just south of Colorado Avenue. The park includes an overlook, amphitheater, playground, garden, fountains, picnic areas, and restrooms.
The Santa Monica Stairs, a long, steep staircase that leads from north of San Vicente down into Santa Monica Canyon, is a popular spot for all-natural outdoor workouts. Santa Monica has two hospitals: Saint John's Health Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Its cemetery is Woodlawn Memorial. he city's oldest movie theater is the Majestic. Opened in 1912 and also known as the Mayfair Theatre.
( Santa Monica - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Santa Monica . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Santa Monica - USA
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New Zealand Campervan Holiday 2010: Brisbane to Christchurch
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This video is the first of a series illustrating John and Sue's holiday in New Zealand from July-September 2010.
If you've been following our 2008 holiday, be assured that most of the ground we covered this time was different from the earlier trip.
In this first video we fly from Sydney to Christchurch and spend a few days there before moving on.
Metal detecting finds are shown at the end.
Photographing Northumberland: Housey Crags in the Harthope Valley
Housey Crags in the Harthope Valley, Northumberland National Park, is one of my favourite photography locations. Follow me as I walk up to, and then photograph the views from the crags, with the occasional photography tip thrown in along the way.
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