Destinations

Growing up in Masterton, Rachel Middleton is proud to call the Wairarapa region home, with its sprawling, lush plains, patterned by patchwork paddocks dividing sheep from cows from deer from vineyards.
The drive from Rai Valley to French Pass leads along one of the most spectacular peninsulas of the Marlborough Sounds in an area, which on the map, looks like shattered glass, writes Jill Malcolm.