No need to hedge your bets on high class hidden gem

Auckland it ain’t but Tommy Barker finds a peach named after a beach in a lofty location in Ireland’s southern hemisphere

No need to hedge your bets on high class hidden gem

Typical Cork, isn’t it? Possibly the very best views in all of the city and valley are from a lofty perch, hundreds of feet up above sea level — and the house is called after a sandy beach on the other side of the world, in New Zealand.

With a name like Takapuna, you’d have to ask where a house got its name. Well, the owners of this place for the last 40 years had rented a house with that name when they got wed, nearly 50 years ago, and asked the landlord if they could take it with them when they moved on — a cheap, but happy, version of saying Takapuna is where they honeymooned, without having to actually go to Auckland in the southern hemisphere to make it any truer.

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