A beautiful winter day in Marlborough, cold but sunny. After breakfast we set out for The Snout, a longish walk along a steadily narrowing bush-clad ridge overlooking Queen Charlotte Sound. Great views but it was our first long walk for quite a while so hard going. We stopped for lunch and a chat to New […]
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 Gallipoli Exhibition at Te Papa. Fantastically well done. Afterwards a quick tour around Seatoun and […]
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, then not. Pre-dinner drinks. Garage Project is a local Wellington brewery.
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 went to a RV service centre and found out the fault was that I had […]
I first visited New Zealand in 1979 and again in 1980 but I’m not sure that I have photos, maybe somewhere. Of course it was a totally different experience then, a long trip too. Returning on BA 001 took something like 30 hours with stops (no getting off) in Sydney, Perth, Bombay and Frankfurt as […]
Easter Sunday, except that we are holding Easter over until tomorrow so Mike can share it with us, he’s worked the past few days on the front line. We have a whole lamb rack of ribs from the neighbours which I’ve never cooked before so tomorrow should be interesting. It’s not like the tiny racks […]