Falling in love with New Plymouth, Taranaki
Falling in love with New Plymouth, Taranaki New Zealand Travel Guide | North Island Published: March 2017 I’ve been to some small airports before. Usually when Ryanair has deposited me in a random Eastern European city about two countries away from where I was actually meant to be. But New Plymouth? This was something else. At a relaxed country pace, we casually shuffled through the hut door in single file, past the short queue of those waiting to fill our seats on the tiny dash aircraft. The luggage arrival area, where a small trolley would shortly be wheeled through carrying the handful of bags from our flight, was more of a corridor than a conveyor. I half expected a sheep to casually stroll onto the runway for a sheering. Flying into New Plymouth Airport Taranaki dubs itself as ‘a little bit out there’ and from first airport impressions, I thought they had been a bit over generous using the word little. Usually skipped over, as people focus on the best of New Zealand...