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Week 3
... if we didn't have to work and had every day to explore!
We all started on Slimming World on Monday with a boys v girls competition going on, so Mark and I went shopping for healthy food to fill the cupboards for the week. I am grudgingly now eating like a vegetarian during the week and hanging on for the weekend, when I can finally eat some meat. Not finding it as hard as I thought we would, but I hate dieting!
The week was mainly taken up by ...
It's rainy up North
... day. As recommended by the couple we met in Wellington, we headed out to Ocean Beach on the East coast. A long hot drive but we were rewarded with a stunning beach that went as far as your eye could see, with a backdrop of moutains. It was pretty windy when we arrived and we found it hard to read/eat lunch without been sandblasted, so moved down towards the water a bit and used our camping chairs as windbreaks. The wind died down to leave ...
Day 9, North Island, New Zealand
The rain came back with a vengeance during last night, so much so that after checking the weather forecast for the next few days we decided to amend our intended itinerary to try and avoid the worse of the weather. Therefore rather than head west we headed to Napier on the east coast. A good friend of ours - Rys (from Pete's ...
Sailing down the NZ East Coast
... this time we chose one bottle with a higher price tag rather than affordable everyday wine and splurged on the Delegation Range Merlot, she said” You should have gone for the Syrah, it’s my favorite.” It was too late and I was too embarrassed to say that we never even tried the Syrah. Shucks.
Next stop was another favorite SALVARE, a funky, much different wine maker we loved the first time we visited it last year. There were ...
Backing Black
... som ligger vid Hawkes Bay vilket är en av Nya Zealands största vinproducenterande regioner. Väl framme checkade vi in på Hotel Masonic, ett hotell i Art Deco stil där man kan känna historiens vingslag. Hela Napier verkar för övrigt vara byggt i samma stil, det känns som att kliva in i ett avsnitt av Poirot. Efter en runda på stan så kan vi konstatera att ...


