I woke up bright as a button, so excited for the wine tasting tour. I'm not much of a 'wine' person so I'm not quite sure why I was so excited but I was! We spent the early morning preparing the Campervan, making breakfast and getting glam for our tour. I had a shower early so my hair could dry, then I straightened my hair for the first time in a month, and put a face of make up on!

The tour company was Marlborough Wine Tasting Tour (very original) and I found it on TripAdvisor with some of the best reviews with the cheapest price. Some of the tours were all day with lots of extras included but we were just doing the 3 hour tour, I'm not sure I could handle much more wine than that!

The mini van driver, Kat, picked us up at 9.45am and she informed us we were the only ones in the tour today... more wine for us! Throughout the tour we went to four different vineyards: Saint Claire, Villa Maria, Omaka Springs and No.1 Boutique. We tasted approximately 6-8 different wines of their best quality premium and reserve wines at each of the first three vineyards, wines that you can't buy in most shops or even restaurants as it contains the top 1% of their best fruit. The types of wine included Savinguion blanc, Chardonnay, 2 new white wines for us both- Pinot Gris and Grünner, and red wines- Syrah and merlot. They explained all about the different wines and showed us the difference in taste a particular type of wine can have just a year apart, it all depends on the season. I thoroughly enjoyed myself! The first two vineyards finished off with a desert wine- Noble Reisling, which is just my absolute favourite, but very sweet! Our last vineyard, No.1, was a boutique that specialised in 'Bubbles', so champagne but they can't call it that as it's not made in Champagne, France.

Our final stop was the Makana Boutique chocolate factory! We were handed free samples on arrival and could try any chocolate we wanted...we made the most of that! That was our amazing tour over, and I was as pissed as a fart! Matt had been tasting but spitting most the wines out as he was driving so he was fine... but I didn't want it to go to waste so I was finishing his too!

On arriving back at the campsite where we had left our camper, we made lunch and used the wifi before heading to the free campsite we had tried to get into the night before but was full- Collins Memorial car park. It was 20 minutes from Picton where we were getting the ferry to the north island. Picton is the only place in the South Island you can get the ferry across.

We spent the rest of the afternoon sunbathing out in the glorious sunshine and reading our books. An elderly American couple parked their Campervan next to ours and we got chatting to them for an hour or so. They lived in a caravan in Florida and every summer they spent 3-4 months travelling the world as they found Florida too humid. What a life! We made tuna pasta on our little single stove and sat in the sun until it set. It gets cold quickly once the sun has gone so we cleaned up and called it a night! Couldn't believe we were leaving the South Island already the next day!