Bk'S Chardonnay Motor Lodge Masterton

... plied us with tea, biscuits and good conversation. We stayed in a sumptuous room that was larger than most people’s main floors. After a leisurely breakfast and a tour of the gardens we are again on our way. These people are typical NZ entrepreneurs. They run the B&B, host weddings, have a small care home in town with 15 beds and have 19 acres including many sheep and little lambs. I’ve included a special picture for Rogan, Kaleb and ...

... krzesła i sprzęt kampingowy oraz na wypadek, gdyby woda w morzu była za zimna - wetsuit-y (nie wiem jak to przetłumaczyć - stroj do nurkowania - takie gumowe kombinezony, ktore chronią przed zimnem wody).

To chyba na tyle poki co... wiza wciąz w trakcie załatwiania - oby jak najszybciej!

Gorące pozdrowienia!

Leszek i Kirsty

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... memorial tower with 176 steps to the top, with good views over the whole town. After lunch, I headed south-east to Palmerston North, which was where I considered staying for the night, but having arrived quite early on and there being almost nothing to do, I continued east. Having driven along the side of the scenic Manawatu Gorge, I reached the Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre too late in ...

... scenery. We went to the food court and had some food, chips for Steven (which is now his staple diet!), and as we were eating we saw a colony/school? of seals swimming by the shore - still no penguins though! We then had a wander about the ferry and found, much to Steven's delight a magnificent 'jungle gym' where he had a great time with several other older children. As we drew into Wellington, the ...

... am schönen Kaiserstuhl. Also soll heissen, wer sich für einen guter Weinkenner hält, sollte auch mit seinem Namen etwas anfangen können. Jetzt aber genug des vielen Lobes. Denn wie jede Medaille hat auch diese eine Kehrseite. Klar wurd uns das schon, als die werte Frau J-Punkt(sie hat sich nicht vorgestellt oda uns begrüßt als wir auf dem Weingut ankamen) uns sofort zu verstehen begab, dass hier ab 21:45 komplette Nachtruhe herrscht. Denn sie k ...

... takes you around all the sights, which include various New Zealand and other birds in aviaries (Keas and Kakas and doves and many others), some of which you can walk through, plus various attractive chickens, peafowl, swans, and tons and tons of ducks of all varieties. On the mamallian front there were pigs (including a breed brought to New Zealand by the Maori which are oh-so-ugly but pretty personable despite all that), donkeys, deer, and ...

... we got so many thank yous from the festival goers for the clean toilets it made it all worthwhile. We also got the Sunday off which was great cos this was the hottest day and we went back to Fay's to have a shower! It has been so so so hot here recently, about 30 degrees every day for the last 2 weeks! After the festival we stayed one more night with a group of new festival friends (strangely all the English people were left ...

... be drenching, and I actually enjoyed the coolness of it. There weren't too many blue berries amongst the green ones-sounds like we were on the tail end of a heavy weekend crowd, so it was picked over already-but I imagine the pickings will be better in a couple of weeks. What we did get are quite tasty, though, so worth the effort. For anybody interested in checking out the farm, you can visit their website.

We had time this afternoon to investigate the references to waterfalls that a couple of geocaches had made in the Upper Hutt area. First, there was Jock's Waterfall, which was a small waterfall on a roadside that had a geocache hidden at it. Secondly, there was a defunct geocache at the dam heading up to Cannon Point which had a bit of a waterfall ...

... I headed back down to Dierdre, packed up and jumped in Dierdre. I put my foot on the gas and nothing happened. Humm. I gave it a little more gas. My tires spun. Humm. I'll try second gear. Tires spun again. I'm in trouble. I got out to see the damage. I was dug in deep. I couldn't understand why I was stuck. I got in with no problems. I was basically parked on a beach of large, rounded, baseball-sized stones. As I was surveying the damage, the fisherman from earlier ...