At the heart of the fertile Manawatū plain on the banks of the beautiful river same-named, emerging from cattle, golf courses and gorse lies the resplendent city of Palmerston North. The people are friendly, without malice or guile. They’ll check out your muffler with gold-filling smiles.
If the metal is precious and prices have soared, you’ll make lots of new buddies in Palmerston North. It’s said that there’s always a park for your car, and fresh doughnuts on grass show you just where they are. The city’s green spaces are a treasured resource for the off-road enthusiast of Palmerston North.
Fast food is the engine for those in a hurry. Try a pizza burger or an Arranged Marriage curry. You don’t need to know how to eat with a fork sampling cuisine locale à la Palmerston North.
Night life revolves round the clock tower and Square. There are cafés and bars and dressers of hair. The fashions are casual and mostly store-bought; only cats walk the catwalks in Palmerston North.
Enrol at the stockies, the Lido, the uni, the comedians joke, but the people are happy. They’re awkward and gawky and proudly self-taught, the jolly-good-sorters of Palmerston North. The butchers, the bakers, the stay-at-home makers.
The students, the teachers, the above-average reachers. They’re walking the walk and they’re talking the talk, with a wave or a nod, a so on and so forth, a grin or a grunt or a par for the course, in barmy pun charm and fun, calmly swung arms in sun, di.
