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Tales from the Wine Trail - Hawke's Bay
... the trains that go by here, you wouldn't want to be caught out! I'm not sure this sort of driveway would be allowed in the UK.... Old-fashioned tractors, sheep and lambs bleeting in the adjacent fields, stunning gardens with trees beginning their Spring blossom... this has all the charm and timelessness of a farm you would expect in NZ. Beautiful. Up Te Mata Peak, a classic tourist spot in Havelock North but oh-so-worthy. Its profile view from Hastings resembles the ...
This week I have been mainly sulking.
... my nap, mummy and daddy lolled around the house. I think they caught Michelle’s viral illness. Lot of it around apparently. When I got up, I decided to be in a foul mood and was generally cranky to both man and beast. My finest point was when I decided to have a sit down protest in an inconvenient location and the filth tried to move me on. I looked mummy in the eye and screamed “I WANT TO HAVE A TANTRUM”
That put the point across quite well I ...
Check out the prawns, people
... chocolate pudding, not knowing that it was a NZ classic. Not what you want to try when cooking for a native kiwi!
Saturday we wandered into Hastings to get a few jobs done and stopped for a leisurely coffee before they left for Napier.
The rest of the weekend we just lazed around! Oh no sorry, Tom went for a humungous bike ride on sunday and came back 3 hours later a really strange ashen colour. It reminded me of the time he went for a 90 minute run with Dave and looked ...
Holidaying in Hastings
... day), we saw Aunty Jenny and Uncle Bernie from Morinsville (we've said before that NZ is a small place), we would buy (almost) any of the wines we tried (if only we could remember which weren't to our taste) and we had a fantastic day. The only real negative to the day was the chocolate outfit, and that was because we were looking forward to it so much. When we got back to the campsite neither of us were in any state to cook (or drive) so it was Dominoes Pizza to the ...
The same but different
We have been travelling in NZ for about a week now and I have to say the kiwis attitude to xmas is low key and laid back. You struggle to hear a carol or see a xmas decoration. As a result of this we had a most relaxing day. First we opened presents then we went for a stroll in the sunshine to see the rose garden at ...