The volcanic cone at sunset, the impossibly turquoise crater lakes below. This is the kind of country that puts your own life into proportion. The North Island holds most of New Zealand: Auckland's harbour bowl, the windy capital, the geothermal middle, the orchard towns of the Bay of Plenty. Being single here past 50 means you've usually settled into a patch of it, and the question is who else is settled nearby with similar weather in their head.
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For a first coffee, Aucklanders tend to suggest Ponsonby Road or a walk along Mission Bay. In Wellington, Cuba Street cafes or the Botanic Garden cable car. Hamilton has the Gardens, Tauranga has Mount Maunganui's base track, and Rotorua's lakefront is still the easiest place to sit and talk while steam drifts off the water. Napier's Marine Parade works for an Art Deco-era stroll without traffic.