Arrowtown Day 1

Time for the last NZ location even though I really don’t want this trip to end. Today was a tour of Tash and Joe recommendations, starting with the National Transport and Toy Museum, a completely eclectic, eccentric collection of more than 60,000 items.

My favourite was the Inspector Morse Jag!

We drove on to Cardrona, once a gold rush town and now described as ‘a ski field balanced atop a pub’. That pub is a gold-rush relic with a decorative mine shaft and is apparently NZ’s most photographed pub.

The next part of the short but spectacular drive was across the Crown Range - another teensy issue for the acrophobic one.

We are staying for two nights at Arrowtown Lodge in a pretty little cottage room with beautiful gardens.

Arrowtown is another gold rush ‘town’ with lots of places to stroll and eat for the numerous day trippers from Queenstown. 

We had delicious craft beers and burgers at Fork & Tap which was built as a bank in the 1870’s, it seemed appropriate! The NZ sized portions needed to be walked off so we had a meander along the Arrow River Bridges trail, Arthur would have loved this walk charging in and out of the shallow, clear trout river.

Another day, another river crossing...

Last stop on the Tash trail was The Shed Ice Cream Parlour for a hokey pokey ice cream - yum.

We are now back on the pretty patio with the ubiquitous Sav Blanc - two more evenings of the NZ variety..