Hamilton

7th November 2009 A slow start this morning as we’re in Hamilton for a couple of nights and everything we want to do is very nearby. A five minute walk away from the hostel is Hamilton Gardens. We headed here after breakfast and after being given some pointers of things to look at by the very helpful lady at the information desk we made our way into the gardens. We started in the Feature Gardens, which are made up of a number of different showcase gardens from around the world. These started with a very Zen Japanese garden, following onto a traditional English garden with wide boarders and quite wild planting. ...

6th October 2009 Up and about early this morning to a beautiful day. It had been raining hard in the night which seemed to have cleared the air and the day was looking promising, which was good news as we had a long drive ahead of us from Kaihu right down to Hamilton. We attempted to finish the jigsaw puzzle over breakfast but failed, so left it for Rachel and Claire to hopefully complete. ...