Around & about
Local excursions, gardening and the like.
South day 6
Early start to the ferry now waiting to board. Fishing dudes say it’s lovely and flat out there. Yeah right. Turns out to be a lovely day but I took a cabin anyway so we slept most of it. Nice…
South day 5
Noisy, windy, rainy night interrupted at about 4AM with an outside expedition to fix the power cable plug cover banging on the side of the van. About 4 degrees in Wellington this morning with half a gale blowing. Visited the…
South day 4
Rain, rain, rain. First stop New World to get all the things we weren’t going to have. Wine, beer, cheese, Danish pastries. Off to the ferry but bad weather in Cook Straight so canceled. Decided to head out to Martinborough,…
South Day 3
Uneventful start, Ohakune Top Ten facilities are excellent. First stop Wellington. Evan’s Bay Marina. Finished the evening at the Corner Bar and Cafe, a humble establishment nearby where we watched some of the rugby.
South Day 2
A landscape of senility. We could not get the a/c power to work in the van even after fault testing with a detector. We checked all breakers including one hidden underneath a cupboard after phoning the help line. So we…
Puzzles
It started during our 4-week lockdown but now I usually have a jigsaw puzzle on the go most of the time. It’s quite good because I can listen to the news or music or a game show and still do…
NZ Reaches Level 1
So, we have had no new cases for, I think, 28 days now and there isn’t anyone in NZ who has Covid 19. With no foreign tourists, the campervan people have greatly reduced their prices. So now we decided is…
Post-lockdown
So the blog will become a bit more intermittent as we exit lockdown and will have reasonable freedom to move around now. I can even play tennis again. Ana, Vicky and I completed our 100km in 14 days today. Mike…