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Wide verandas, cobbled walkways, and narrow windows provide an ambiance that is pure mid-nineteenth century, yet step inside and you’ ll find a modern world of consumerism driven by the tourist dollar. It detracts from the quaint qualities of the street, leading one to believe that the facades are just that, and a little twee at best.
Walking Buckingham Street you’ ll hear accents from across the globe as travellers vie for the best priced knickknack that proves they were in New Zealand. It gets a little better as one steps inside the streets only pub, the New
finding its place, Arrowtown is a combination of the authentic and the tourism twee
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