Wharekauhau Country Estate Featherston
Western Lake Road, Palliser Bay, RD3 Featherston Featherston, Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand
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In the words of Samwise Gamgee..
"It's the job thats never started that takes the longest to finish".
I've been reading the Lord of the Rings. It seemed appropriate for the location. I started in Auckland and have picked off a few pages every night. Up to this day I had read 50% of the Fellowship section of the trilogy (I know it wasn't written as a trilogy before someone complains).
The evening was long. I spent a lot of time trying to convince both myself and Kate that the van ...
Rotarua, Gisbourne, White Island
... amazing to see! Journey to rotarua was pretty uneventful... They passed the activity sheets round (you can sign up and they book it for you, and you sometimes get a bit of a discount). The shopaholic in me came out and i wanted to buy all the activities :( i settled for 3 in the end lol, cos i was staying in rotarua for 3 nights. The driver did stop near a forest and told us there was a 20 minute walk through it to get cool views of the river. We did the (uphill) walk and ...
46 days and 7,093 kms later... its the RWC Final!
... the game had finished there were the obligatory fireworks and the presentation of the Web Ellis Trophy. We decided to head down to the side of the pitch and get s good look at the trophy and the team, including a close-up of the proud captain, Richie McCaw. The celebrations were great and the players' children came onto the pitch too. It was also Graham Henry's last game in charge and so also did a lap of honor with his wife (Graham Henry for the England ...
Rugby World Cup 2011 in Wellington
... blood. Ahhhhh it's good to be alive!!!! Next stop, pizza. I realised just then I'd lost Alex. Whoops. Oh well, she'll be alright!
We chose a lovely Italian restaurant (this is where details start to become a little hazy) and shared a fantastic pizza which was authentic Italian style. The pizza was epic and so was the wine that I ordered to come with it. I haven't tasted any wine other than New Zealand produced wine for months and months so it was such a treat ...
Rugby World Cup! And Leslie!
... and let me stay in one of the empty furnished flats. It seemed brand new, and I felt like I had fallen into the lap of luxury. Alex kept apologizing for the mix up, but I told her not to worry at all, this place was awesome.
Sunday morning, I walked over to the hostel where Ingrid, Alex, and Leslie were staying. Geez I've met a lot of Alexes. Anyway, this is the Alex from the Rotorua trip way back when, and we met up a few times in Nelson, and she ...
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