Akaroa is an hallucinatingly beautiful location. It’s absurdly charming. It’s hard to articulate. And Annette’s little home is right in the middle of it. The sunrise and sunset skies casting light across the nearby mountains are fully viewable from the kitchen table, don’t even have we to go out on the patio deck, though you sure will want to. The house is clearly designed to bring the outdoors in. Everywhere in the very efficiently designed house makes you connected to the natural world: the babbling brook right outside, the vast variety of birds flitting about unconcerned by us humans. An easy walk to and from downtown makes for just enough exercise to work off a meal too good to not give in and finish your plate
I easily could have stayed longer and I fully intend to make a return visit.