New Zealand
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Day 462 – Benmore, Duntroon & Oamaru
Pretty rubbish sleep but we’re moving on today with not too arduous a drive To start our day, we have a brief stop at The Hungry Hydro – a small coffee stand on the road – before driving round to Benmore Hydro Station (see the featured image) After, we get on the road and reach…
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Day 461 – Twizel, Mount Cook (Aoraki) & Otematata
We finalise some accommodation admin with coffee before getting ready and heading out along the route we came yesterday Twizel has The Musterers Hut Cafe which sorts us breakfast as well as a snack for later in the day We make a start of our day and head to The Peace Ring / Pelennor Fields…
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Day 460 – Christchurch, Timaru, Lake Tekapo & Otematata
We’re up about an hour earlier than we expected, due to not fully adjusting into holiday mode yet, but we embrace with a hotel coffee before getting up and checking out of the hotel Dave finds us Belle (café & micro roastery) to head to for more coffee and some food – we go through…
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Day 459 – Packing up and heading south
Daisy is up and out to go to work for the last day before the year It seems most, if not almost all, of New Zealand seems to shut down for about 3 weeks over the Christmas and New year period – we figure we might as well join them! We enjoy some lunch together,…
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Days 436 – 458 – Becoming Wellington-ians
Over these weeks we get on with a lot of exploring of the area around us This includes a BBQ festival, in Greytown with Daisy’s work; having a drink in Brewtown, in Upper Hutt and finding a Christmas food festival, in Wellington In addition to this, our apartment building has a couple of fire scares,…
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Day 435 – 262 kilometres later
Before making our way back to Wellington, we pop by In The Neighbourhood Coffee House for a coffee We get back to the airport to drop off the car without a hitch The rest of the day consists of wandering around the city doing some admin tasks and shopping before getting back in the evening…
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Day 434 – Celebrating Dave ????
Today is Dave’s birthday, and we have a lovely plan set – we kick off the day going to Café Figg to have some breakfast and they even give Dave a massive slice of cake for free! Time to get on the road – we have to get to Martinborough We arrive at Margrain Vineyard…
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Day 433 – Beaches and wandering to waterfalls
For today with the car, we plan to explore the eastern side of the bay we live in We set off and fancy a coffee so stop off in Eastbourne and find a Sunday market being hosted in Muritai School It’s nice to have a nosey around the offerings; we find Ip Man Asian Fusion…
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Day 432 – In search fur seals!
Today, we head into Wellington and then the airport as we’ve organised a car rental for the next few days The collection is really smooth and they even let us take it a bit early As it’s around lunch time, we have some lunch at AROMA COFFEE WORKS Just down the road is Mary Potter…
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Days 420 – 431 – Worker Bees
Both settling into a new routine: Dave working online at home and Daisy working in Marketing for a local Wellington and Wairarapa construction company We have a dabble at creating an aray of lovely home-cooked meals, including a roast, as well as exploring the local area and trying a couple of the local pub’s and…