Favourite places: The Beach Store

We found this gorgeous little design store by total accident, a few months after we moved to Kapiti.  The husband was taking me on a tiki tour through Paekakariki on our way back from the city one Friday (Friday is our day to cram in as many errands and necessary (or completely unnecessary) trips into the city and faraway places as possible) and there was The Beach Store, sitting right across from the beachfront. 

Now it's my go-to place for gifts, books or just a really nice spot to grab a coffee and let the kids climb and run around down on the beach.  It's one of those places that you go to for one thing, but you can't leave the store until you have been through every item and made sure that nothing new and gorgeous, or fascinatingly random, has appeared since the last time you visited.  I love those sorts of stores.  We even collected a chair there one visit.

They won my heart totally one visit when they sold us a toy, right out of the store toybox (it was an awesome toy).

Better yet - there is coffee, and tubs of gourmet icecream for sale (and to assist with the eating of said icecream, old school little wooden paddle-spoons to boot.  Wooha!)  It's just every inch beach living.

This is one of the best bits.  This is how you can enjoy your coffee or icecream (or your new book - I've done that too) after your visit.