Saturday, April 23, 2011

Village

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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.IMG_4927
Vineyards along the way, not to forget a lot of cows and sheep.
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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.IMG_4801
Lots of people.IMG_4813
Lots of prepared food, from pastries to mussel patties.IMG_4836
Lots of sweets. These are iced coconut candies.IMG_4824
Lots of preserves too. Spreads, dips, bacon and the sort.
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Heaps of fresh fruits, flowers, nuts and vegetables.
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Stores that sell pretty looking things.
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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.
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There was this lady who was selling handmade felt hats that she made on her own for $75 each.IMG_4904
More handmade crafts.
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This reminded me of Alice in Wonderland’s Mat Hatter’s tea parties.
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I met another friend, this time a Golden Retriever.IMG_4916
Had some blueberry and macadamia and honey ice cream.IMG_4971
On the way back, lunch was at this place called Dragonfly which, again sold really pretty looking things as well as food.IMG_4987
Lunch.IMG_5001
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.
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End product of the day apart from 200 photographs, I got a handmade clay sheep for $15.IMG_4959
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.

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