In the March/April issue we met a couple of American psychology professors who spent a happy sabbatical at historic Lombardy Cottage near St Bathans in Central Otago (The wrinkly tin house). They fell in love with the area’s corrugated-iron buildings and when they returned home they built a weekend retreat out of what they call “the wrinkly stuff”. Now dream of retreating to Lombardy Cottage yourself. There’s a two-night weekend for up to four people to be won (valued at $700), staying in this 151-year-old gold-miner’s cottage built of schist with a two-bedroom wing clad in corrugated iron. Spend happy days biking, kayaking, ghost-hunting at the famous Vulcan Hotel, panning for gold or simply reading by the fire in the library.
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