Foxton

On the return trip the next day, we stopped off in Foxton, which used to have a thriving flax industry--my maternal grandmother's dad worked as an engineer in one of the flax mills. Unfortunately, the flax museum was closed at the time we visited.

The area was settled mainly by people from the Netherlands, hence the windmill and the Dutch museum and art gallery.

There is also an excellent little Maori museum/craft workshopRead more