The Grapevine Blenheim
29 Park Terrace Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand
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We woke up to our 7:30am alarm and immediately packed up the camper bedding before heading over to the kitchen to make breakfast. There were a lot of other campers doing a one night stop off and so everyone had spare food to put in the free food box. The previous day we had taken advantage of the free Cadbury hot chocolate and jar of jam, but when …
IRD & Vodka
We were abruptly woken up at 7am by somebody knocking on our bedroom window. I had asked Andrew to lock the door the previous evening but apparently people staying in another block didn't have a key and they used the kitchen in our block. Anyway, Andrew got up to let an American couple into the kitchen and as he was wide awake he began to make …
The Hangover
We both woke up with a rather intense hangover after consuming most of the bottle of vodka we had bought the previous evening. We didn't really leave our bedroom but Andrew made it to the toilet in time to vomit! We only got ready to walk to Burger King which turned out to be disappointing in the end.
House Hunting & Wedding Planning
Andrew woke up early at 8am so he went to make us breakfast in bed which had become his morning routine. We spent the day on the internet searching for our ideal house and wedding as we literally had nothing else as a form of entertainment! As Andrew was making a stew later in the day the mouse decided to show itself once again by darting across …
Black Cast
We had a very lazy morning before walking to the 'Wairau Hospital' which seemed to take such a long time. I was first given an x-ray to check that my wrist was still in a good position. The doctor was happy with it and so he sent me to the plaster room to get a new cast. He told me I would be fine to fly and wrote me a letter, but my new cast had …


