Breakfast this morning in the Town Basin area at Mokaba Cafe. Food was quite nice but the real find was the Hundertwasser Art Centre, next door. What a building!! - the conception of artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. While first designed in 1993 the project proved controversial and was considered and rejected several times until it was finally approved in 2015. The centre opened two years after Hundertwasser's death in February 2022 and, no doubt, is still quite controversial - not a straight line in sight but lots of organic shapes, eye-catching facades, golden domes and coloured columns. As it happens, the Art Centre is one of many buildings that Hundertwasser has designed around the world, including buildings in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the US, Japan, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Born in Austria, Hundertwasser emigrated to New Zealand in the 1970s.
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From Whangārei it was a long drive south (almost 400km), through the centre of Auckland, down Highway One, skirting around Hamilton, to our home for the next week, Club Wyndham at Rotorua. We're on the north of Lake Rotarua about 14km from the town centre.
After settling in we went for a walk around the resort. Club Whyndham is right on the Ohau Channel which links Lake Rotarua with Lake Rotoiti. We even have Black Swans at our back door.
Dinner tonight at the on-sight Restaurant.
