Hi everyone,

First TG friends post for a while :-). Anyway, the place I live has a
website now. They're selling more plots of land in the village just
at the moment. They have a pretty good gallery. The website is :

<http://www.castlehillmountainvillage.co.nz/>

I should say that most of the houses don't look the Swiss Chalet one,
although they have tried to make the place feel a bit like a European
mountain resort with a lot of firs, larches, aspens and whatnot
planted round the place rather than NZ native trees, which I would
have preferred. Although I do like the location, lots of outdoors
stuff to do close by, I don't much like living in the village because
the houses are really packed together and there is no sense of
privacy. It's almost like living in town. It's not so bad during the
week, but weekends and holidays can be pretty bad.

We actually have some land at a similar sort of place further up the
South Island :

<http://www.mtlyford.co.nz/>

We think this will be a much nicer place to live because the sections
are much larger, ours is 4500 m2 whereas a really large one here
would be about 800 m2. We have a stream and a pretty big section of
beech forest on our section, and all you can see of the neighbours
are a few bits of roof poking above the trees. We hope to build a
house there next summer. Unfortunately the gallery isn't so good at
the site above, it's mostly for the skifield.

Regards,

Jo