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Sweet escape

The moment you arrive at Taranaki’s Ahu Ahu Beach Villas, you feel a sense of familiarity, of comfort. Stepping onto their concrete floors with inlaid shell and driftwood detail, running your hand over their plaster walls and timber benchtops, or tilting your gaze towards their weathered wharf-piles-turned-structural-beams, each of the four warm and tranquil dwellings greets you like an old friend. It’s a feeling matched by their owners Nuala and

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