Napier, 2018

We visited Napier in 2014, and were impressed, both with ts history and its architecture, and I did two posts: http://roadeveron.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/on-to-napier.html, and http://roadeveron.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/more-napier.html. We were back again this year and stayed at a freedom camp on the beach, again, about a mile down from the city. Much of that mile is walking track, playgrounds, garden, and other civic things. We heard from locals, later, that Napier has become a cruise ship stop. We saw no signs of this during our brief visit, but hope this beautiful and historic little town won't be cruisified the way so many others have been.

For kids learning to ride their bikes: a safe practice track, replete with traffic lights,
signs, rotaries, the works

Thus

Playground

Climbing structures

Gardens

We were about 3 weeks too late for the annual Art Deco
Festival

Napier was leveled by an earthquake and subsequent fire in 1931,
but rebuilt in largely Art Deco style in the years following; much
of the architecture persevered and is now lovingly (and profitably)
cared for

In another city park

Carillon

Art Deco graphic, of course

Still processing this one; someone help me!

Inside the city theater, completed 1938

Costume shoppe

Did I mention the whole Marine Parade, a mile or two, is planted in now-mature
Norfolk Island Pines?

Skateboard facility for little ones