Hop, Skip and a Jump

“The sea is never more than a few miles away on Waiheke,” Jonathan Hutchison writes for The New York Times. “West is Oneroa, a small township with cafeterias and shops selling clothes, crafts and, of course, wine. It looks out over one of Waiheke’s many picturesque swimming beaches. ‘It’s just such a beautiful island; it’s inspiring,’ said Norma Cross, a shop assistant in a local gift store who moved here three years ago. The locals have made it ‘probably one of the easiest places I’ve ever been to, to make friends.’”