Charming: an overused word, perhaps, but the best possible description of the tiny township of Akaroa.

If the title of this startling event has you thinking of folksy folk united and assembled in a be-sandalled mass...

This isn’t a couple of cute billboard-type pieces put up in obvious places. This is a thing.

Slightly eccentric, Ōamaru is one of those not-as-it-first-seems places.