Up early this morning, before the alarm went off. Who needs an alarm when you have a bladder. Sat talking to the people in van next to us. They were over from Canada visiting their kids who were working over here. Lovely warm morning. Got bus into Wellington and spent morning wandering round. A woman showed us where the food court was, so we tucked into a Chinese for lunch. After lunch we got a tram/trolley bus to the station and walked back to the bus stop. Foun...

What a lovely warm morning in Masterton. Got out all my summer clothing. Could feel myself warming up in the heat (hopefully I will have passengers arm to even it all out). Stopped a few miles down the road in Carterton and spent an hour or so in Paua world. They cut, polish and mount all their own jewellery and you can watch. Unfortunately we turned up at coffee break time. Bought a few Christmas pressies and back on the road. About an hour into the journey came...