Thank you for the feedback emails and comments on Toe-Paw Council’s designs for landscaping the urban streets in Turangi. When asked the question of where they would rather live – in a tree lined street or where the trees had been removed, the tree enhanced streets easily won. What a surprise! To be fair to […]

Meet Sarah Poppe, Music Teacher from Wentworth College at Whangaparaoa, entertaining SWMBO and Juno. She is a complete cello orchestra with backup (aka TRM’s Flash Mob) to appear at the Turangi Market on Saturday morning. She is staying at TRM while practising for this special recital, while her husband goes off fishing each day. Tomorrow […]

An excellent thought provoking piece pinched from the Taupo & Turangi News, composed by Turangi Motel owner, Lewis Dawson. It should be compulsory reading for Toe-Paw Council. OPINION: As New Zealand’s tourism sector continues to evolve, much of the public conversation focuses on headline attractions, major developments, and peak-season performance. By Lewis Dawson / Tūrangi […]

Now for something entirely different… On a recent pleasant relaxing therapy stroll led by Juno around Turangi, we stumbled across some interesting and challenging imaginative landscaping to compare to the boring, unimaginative Council’s versions. We trust you might appreciate that after losing a magnificent mature Oak tree to Council’s butchers recently, we have become more […]