One of my favorite quirky towns of New Zealand is the lovely little town of Bulls. With a population of about 1,600 people, Bulls is located at the junction of highway 1 and highway 3, just West of Palmerston North in the North Island. If you’re taking highway 1 through the North Island then you’ll…
Driving through Taihape for the first time is an odd and surreal experience if you’re new to New Zealand. If you’re driving South, you’ll pass by a Taihape city sign in front of a huge sculpture of a gumboot. And if you’re driving North, you’ll pass by a Taihape city sign that says “Taihape Welcomes…
There are just some things that to my American eyes feel odd and this sign is one of them. It is posted on the entrance to the Durie Hill War Memorial Tower in Wanganui. That being said, there are a lot of reasons Wanganui is one of my favorite cities in New Zealand:
New Zealand has no shortage of quirky towns and you’ll find yourself looking quizzically confused upon entering many of the places along our roads. Things that would seem just odd and bizarre in the U.S. seem perfectly at home here. One of these is in a town called Tirau — TripAdvisor says that the 2nd…