Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Handy to the mountain on SH3, the little main-street town of Inglewood is an adequate
stop for supermarket supplies and a noteworthy stop for a steak-and-egg pie at
Nelsons
Bakery
( 06-756 7123; 45 Rata St; pies $3-4; 6am-4.30pm Mon-Fri, 7am-4pm Sat)
. Ingle-
wood's other shining light is the cute
Fun Ho! National Toy Museum
( 06-756 7030;
www.funhotoys.co.nz
; 25 Rata St; adult/child $6/3; 10am-4pm)
, exhibiting (and selling) old-
fashioned sand-cast toys. It doubles as the local visitor information centre; online,
www.inglewood.co.nz
is a good source of information.
On the road into town from New Plymouth,
White Eagle Motel
( 06-756 8252;
www.whiteeaglemotel.co.nz
;
87b Rata St; s/d from $90/105, extra person $20; )
is an old-
school motel but tidy and quiet with blooming flower boxes. The two-bedroom units feel
bigger than they are.
Inside a fire-engine-red 1878 heritage building,
Caffe Windsor
( 06-756 6665;
www.caffewindsor.co.nz
; 1 Kelly St; brunch $9-23, dinner $23-30; 8.30am-5pm Mon-Wed, to late
Thu-Sat, to 3pm Sun)
sells super-sized custard squares and coffee during the day and Thai
chicken curry at night (among other things). Nearby,
Funkfish Grill
( 06-756 7287;
www.funkfishgrill.co.nz
; 32 Matai St; takeaways $5-10, mains $23-36; 4pm-late)
is a hip pizzer-
ia and fish-and-chippery doing eat-in and takeaway meals, and doubles as a bar at night.
Try the tempura scallops.
Stratford
POP 5470
Forty kilometres southeast of New Plymouth on SH3, Stratford plays up its namesake of
Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace, by naming its streets after bardic charac-
ters. Stratford also claims NZ's first
glockenspiel
. Four times daily (10am, 1pm, 3pm
and 7pm) this clock doth chime out Shakespeare's greatest hits with some fairly wooden
performances.
Stratford i-SITE
( 06-765 6708, 0800 765 6708;
www.stratford.govt.nz
;
Prospero Pl, Broad-
way S; 8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm Sat & Sun)
also houses the
Percy Thomson
Gallery
( 06-765 0917; www.percythomsongallery.org.nz; Prospero Pl; 10.30am-4pm Mon-
Fri, to 3pm Sat & Sun)
, a community gallery (named after the former mayor) dis-
playing eclectic local and touring art shows.
One kilometre south of Stratford on SH3, the
Taranaki Pioneer Village
( 06-765
5399;
www.pioneervillage.co.nz
; adult/child $12/5; 10am-4pm)
is a 4-hectare outdoor mu-
seum housing 40 historic buildings. It's very bygone-era (and more than a little bit
spooky).
