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  • Your Home and Garden

    FRESH START

    Jul 21, 2021 4 minutes
    Text Bea Taylor
    Photography
    Marina Mathews

    For a family that loves getting outdoors and having adventures, suffering through Auckland’s busy commute every working day can only be endured with a ‘grin and bear it’ attitude for so long. The remedy for Alisha and Ben Goodwin was the promise of holidays in Wanaka.

    In 2018, their dream to buy in the picturesque resort town came true when they put down a deposit on a piece of land with the intention of building themselves a holiday home, which they would rent out on Airbnb when they weren’t using it.

    But, just as they started to build on the site in early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic hit and

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