Village

Weather was good yesterday, we headed up north to Matakana which was like an hour’s drive from Auckland city. I tagged along with two aunties, an uncle, two brothers, a car and lack of sleep.
Vineyards along the way, not to forget a lot of cows and sheep.

I found the place to be rather interesting, not your conventional street with gift shops and grocery stores kind of thing. The crafts were interesting to look at.
Lots of people.
Lots of prepared food, from pastries to mussel patties.
Lots of sweets. These are iced coconut candies.
Lots of preserves too. Spreads, dips, bacon and the sort.

Heaps of fresh fruits, flowers, nuts and vegetables.

Stores that sell pretty looking things.

Reminds me of my mum’s Radley handbags except that this has a cat for its logo instead of a running terrier. But note that nothing in that shop was cheap.

There was this lady who was selling handmade felt hats that she made on her own for $75 each.
More handmade crafts.

This reminded me of Alice in Wonderland’s Mat Hatter’s tea parties.

I met another friend, this time a Golden Retriever.
Had some blueberry and macadamia and honey ice cream.
On the way back, lunch was at this place called Dragonfly which, again sold really pretty looking things as well as food.
Lunch.
Then it was time to head back to Auckland city but not quite time to head back to my place so I did more tagging.

End product of the day apart from 200 photographs, I got a handmade clay sheep for $15.
As well as a bar of pretty looking soap from the stacks of colourful looking handmade soaps. They had pink, orange, blue, any colour you just name it.