(photograph © Kiwidutch)
We were due to leave Napier but out of the window of the car I spied a shop called “The Frying Dutchman” …
What an great name!
…clearly it’s a take-a-way / fish and chip shop, but we have to get going to our next destination so we aren’t stopping this morning.
We have a giggle because in back in Picton we saw a bakery called the Picton Village Bakery which if the decoration of the building was anything to go by, was also run by Dutch people.
Between the late 1940′s and mid 1960′s New Zealand saw a wave of immigration of Dutch people, many of them in trades.
My father was one of them… that’s how I get to have a multicultural family history.
Now that I am back in New Zealand not only as a citizen but also as a Dutch “visitor” it suddenly hits me what an influence the Dutch have had in New Zealand over the decades.
We didn’t get to stop at these businesses this time but who knows… another trip, another day… more time…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Love the name of this eatery. Have you returned to New Zealand or are you again visiting? BTW, have you fully recovered from your foot injury?
Comment by lulu — April 10, 2012 @ 1:16 pm |
Hi Lulu,
This is the slightly delayed blog tour because we were there December/January… yes, it was just a visit, and no, the foot still isn’t quite the shape it’s meant to be, or functioning as it should either. I’m subsequently still on crutches (read: ultra frustrating) and physio is intensive and ongoing. There IS progress (hurrah!) but it’s slow since the original injury turned out to be as complicated as it was possible to get… I can’t WAIT to throw the sticks away!… but Dr’s say they will still be needed for the foreseeable future at least. (I’m working hard on all my exercises to prove them wrong.)
Comment by kiwidutch — April 10, 2012 @ 4:20 pm |