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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk.

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Speaker 2: ZEDB eighteen past eleven on Newstalks edbur Travel correspondence Mike Yardley,

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Speaker 2: and he's with us now.

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Speaker 3: Hi Mike, good morning Jack. Fantastic news about the baby.

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Speaker 3: And I'm particularly impressed your son has been introduced to

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Speaker 3: Champions Trophy cricket so early in his life. I hope

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Speaker 3: he becomes the nation's good luck charm for the next

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Speaker 3: few weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this is it's funny you mentioned that, right,

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Speaker 2: because obviously we are a big cricketing family. Certainly my

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Speaker 2: side of the family are keen cricketing fans. And so

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Speaker 2: it's funny because we were at Orcan Central Hospital and

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Speaker 2: then after you've been at Auckland Hospital you can be

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Speaker 2: discharged to birth Care and Parnell, which is just on

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Speaker 2: the other side of the domain if you know Central Auckland.

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Speaker 2: And so the thing about the domain is they have

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Speaker 2: lots of cricket pitches at this time of year. So

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Speaker 2: once once we had been discharged, so we watched the

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Speaker 2: Champions Trophy and then once we've been discharged and the

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Speaker 2: nursers said, oh, I feel free to take him outside

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Speaker 2: for a bit of walk, get a little bit of

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Speaker 2: sunshine on him, I said, okay, And I'm pleased to

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Speaker 2: report that not only has he watched a Champions Trophy match,

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Speaker 2: he's also spent an hour in the domain watching a

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Speaker 2: bit of social cricket in person.

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Speaker 3: So there you.

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Speaker 4: Goroots, Yes, exactly, very much, grassroots, very much, grassroots going

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Speaker 4: to watch a bit of T twenty, but a social

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Speaker 4: tea twenty on Thursday night, So that was that was

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Speaker 4: a bit of fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, y, anyway, don't rush, don't don't rush to

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Speaker 3: get him to watch the Crusaders.

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Speaker 2: Going to say, better cricket than the Vietnam moment as

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Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 3: At the very last.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we're focusing on Cannoby this morning though, and the

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Speaker 2: the hinterland treats in the Hurunui district and so this

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Speaker 2: is the sort of area in North Canterbury kind of

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Speaker 2: inland a little bit. And you've been jet boating on

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Speaker 2: the Wyo River, Haggard, was.

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Speaker 3: That absolutely superb jackets The first time I have taken

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Speaker 3: a blast down that magnificent braided river. So this is

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Speaker 3: the river that starts in Lewis pass by the Spencer

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Speaker 3: Mountains actually, and then just charges across the Hirnui landscape.

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Speaker 3: In places that river, the rapids, man, they can be

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Speaker 3: quite frisky, and I had this driver Karen. He was

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Speaker 3: a wizard behind the wheel, even though he said to

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Speaker 3: me this is only my second day on the job,

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Speaker 3: which added a bit of a frizzon to the experience.

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Speaker 3: But it's such a scenically thrilling ride because you go

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Speaker 3: from narrow gorges to braided shallows. And last week when

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Speaker 3: I was there, it was just the most beautifully sunny day,

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Speaker 3: so that water it just shimmered like liquid jade. But

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Speaker 3: aside from the thrills and the spells, it is such

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Speaker 3: a novel advantage point to just soak up that landscape

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Speaker 3: and all of its sort of layered richness in the area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the rock formations are pretty impressive.

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Speaker 3: A they are really impressive. So just south of the

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Speaker 3: Wyo Faery Bridge, which is that bridge leading you into

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Speaker 3: hand the springs the gorge, the Wyo Gorge, it has

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Speaker 3: these fast noting rock walls and the terraces particularly is

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Speaker 3: where I really got my geological Jolly's Jack Marble point

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Speaker 3: is the highlight. So there are these limestone rock outcrops

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Speaker 3: that sort of tumble across the countryside and then rising

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Speaker 3: up from the river banks outcrops of red tinted recrystallized limestone.

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Speaker 3: So back in the day, apparently it was sold as

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Speaker 3: Hemma marble. And then as you look at these rock terraces,

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Speaker 3: you can also see the Hope fault line, and beneath

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Speaker 3: that a fossil line imprinted in the rock, and that

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Speaker 3: has unearthed all manner of ancient marine fossils dating back

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Speaker 3: thirty million years when apparently the river was actually a beach.

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Speaker 3: So that was all quite enough to blow my mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. Other hot pools cranking and hand

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Speaker 2: miss springs at the moment or is it kind of

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Speaker 2: too hot?

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Speaker 3: Curious you ask Jack, because when I was there last week,

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Speaker 3: the mercury was nudging thirty degrees, But there are hundreds

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Speaker 3: of people quite happy to sizzle themselves in that piping

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Speaker 3: then again, you've got the cold pools there as well

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Speaker 3: if you need to cool off, so twenty two poles

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Speaker 3: at that complex to hop scotch your way through. Then

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Speaker 3: you've got the water slides it is such a perennial

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Speaker 3: people attractor, the thermal poles and spa, but I reckon

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Speaker 3: it's definitely best at night when the temperatures have dipped,

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Speaker 3: or even better when you've got a bit of dappled

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Speaker 3: snow on the mountain range. But it's just such a

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Speaker 2: And tell us about your spa experience.

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Speaker 3: Well, the SPA at Hanmer Springs is one of New

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Speaker 3: Zealand's busiest spas, so people go crazy there, put their

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Speaker 3: facials into have a feet retreat apparently as a big

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Speaker 3: thing jacker feet retreat, or you can have the full

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Speaker 3: body of fear. So I was booked in for this

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Speaker 3: standard message right, a relaxation message, but as I chatted

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Speaker 3: to my therapist Sophie, who was fantastic, I started listing

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Speaker 3: off all of my various complaints and she she switched

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Speaker 3: it up into a deep tissue recovery message, which was

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Speaker 3: the most searing, transformative and most brutal body batting experience

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Speaker 3: I've ever encountered. But I felt so liberated an hour

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Speaker 3: later and I just floated out of the joints like

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Speaker 3: a happy little cloud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably because you please, but no, that does sounds

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Speaker 2: sounds good every once in a while sounds like a

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Speaker 2: bit of me too, so we would use some good spots.

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Speaker 2: What would be your recommendations for good kai in Himna.

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Speaker 3: Well, there is a place which is like a one

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Speaker 3: stop shop for you Jack Fudge Gelato, so yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: like a double dip fresh and premi fudge and gelato.

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Speaker 3: But for top notch, definitely dying at number thirty one

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Speaker 3: on the main street in Hammer, I tried the beetroot aranchini,

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Speaker 3: which was absolutely stuffed with an almond and cheese filling. God,

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Speaker 3: they're so good. The mains were dominated by locally sourced meats,

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Speaker 3: but definitely leave room for dessert. The warm, sticky licorice

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Speaker 3: pudding so good, and then the creative cocktails. I tried

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Speaker 3: a mushroom sour, which is like a modern take on

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Speaker 3: a whiskey sour, I know, and it's infused with mushroom powder.

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Speaker 3: So the idea is you get like the earthy richness

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Speaker 3: of the fungi with the classic blend of whiskey lemon

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Speaker 3: and a creamy egg white froth. So it's savory and

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Speaker 3: e't citrucy and it's really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, yeah, I do. You know, mushrooms are one

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Speaker 2: of the one of the few things I don't like eating.

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Speaker 3: Seriously, I thought you'd be a mushroom man.

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Speaker 2: Mushrooms and just never have been. I'm always like, why

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Speaker 2: would you eat from us? You know? But then I

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Speaker 2: suppose I like blue cheese, so I don't know anyway,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not show I'm going to leap at

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Speaker 2: that option, but sounds that there'll be some other creative

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Speaker 2: little options for me. And if you grow vineyards, what

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Speaker 2: would be your recommendations for wineries.

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Speaker 3: In Yes indeed? Yeah, Well the Wipe Pit of Valley

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Speaker 3: of course, big wine country, so lots of little boutique vineyards.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of George's Road Wines, particularly if

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Speaker 3: you like Sarah or Peno Gree or Rose. Everyone seems

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Speaker 3: to love rose at this time of year. Another great

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Speaker 3: winery stop is tall Less, once again, very small boutique vineyard,

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Speaker 3: and they do exceptional rose. But I really like the

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Speaker 3: Omah Road pen and Noir. So if you're having a

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Speaker 3: week tasting, add the pen and wa to you to

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Speaker 3: your list. It's all cherries and raspberries and plums. It's

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Speaker 3: just a delicious pinot.

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Speaker 2: Jack sounds fantastic. Okay, thank you. We will put all

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Speaker 2: of those tips for exploring the hinterland treats in the

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Speaker 2: Hodnui district up on the News Talks. He'd be We've done.

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Speaker 2: Catch you next WEEKNIGHTE Thank you. Jack. Mike, a travel correspondent.

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