Today was our last day in Napier. Yesterday was actually a much better day than it sounded in the blog I wrote. Having been to 4 wineries and drunk 6 different grape types at each one, I was feeling a little poorly and really didnt feel up to the job. All the vinyards were brilliant, but I think we went to the best one first. That one was called Brookfields and although its a tiny winery and vinyard they sweep up all the awards whenever they enter as their wine is so sought after. So much so that they have stopped entering as the competitors said it was unfair. We tried 5 whites and 4 reds there or some similar number. There were a LOT in quick succession. But they let us try a red thats never sold in the UK and barely in NZ as its only ever a few cases ever made. The next bottles wont be ready to drink for another 4 years or so. So we bought one to save for a special occasion. They do a gold label one as well but theres only so much I can plunder the well of HSBC.
The other wineries were good, the last one we went to was almost as good as Brookfields as they had Tom the student Wine Maker who was very good at explaining the processes to us.
After we got back to the hostel I started feeling a little ill, due mainly to the large amount of wine and small amount of lunch. We had an early night and I felt better in the morning. Before our coach back to Auckland we decided to have another round of mini golf. We needed to determine a winner after the draw yesterday and I am happy to say I won by 1 point. Although Faye got 2 holes in 1 and fluffed up the last hole conceeding after 10 shots were attempted.
The first part of our journey to Taupo (pronounced ToePore) was pretty uneventful but our second coach was 2 hours late, had some kind of IPod wars going on and kept getting stuck in traffic caused by road works and the U2 concert happening here tonight. We got off the coach finally to find Nik waiting at the terminal for us only to hear that his friend had accidentally totalled his car. We have a hire car for our trip to New Plymouth tomorrow.
Faye and I cooked far too much pasta and now we are preparing to throw Nik out of the study so we can go to bed. Its been a long day but tomorrow promises the possibility of surfing. AT LAST!!
Hope everyone is well. I introduced Nik to Compare the Merekat tonight as thats completely passed him by. Happily he enjoyed it as much as we do and it made me think of coding merekat in the office. No Im still not coming back but I do miss the merekat. :-)
Off to bed soon, New Plymouth and finally being allowed into the Surf Club awaits!
Love
Tui and (a now fast asleep on the sofa) Kiwi.
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