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Ren and M's Excellent Adventure
Slapped wrists all round I'll tell you! Firstly apologies for the complete lack of postcards! (some of you may be cheering and I will find out who that is!) And we feel a distinct lack of contact with many of you......how dare you have lives of your own....please let us know what you are up to!
Anyway New Zealand....after our mammouth journey to get to NZ, oh and I forgot about the time when we were sleeping on the floor of Tahiti airport we awoke to find a giant and I mean GIANT crab fighting with one of the airport guards, we arrived dishevelled at Waiheke Island to be greeted by a slender hippy chick/spangled ferrett leader..Gina! She whisked us back to their abobe with beautiful scenery all around...surrounded by boutique vineyards and enclosed with white sandy beaches! It was great to catch up so we spent the night feasting on Fush & Chups...thats my NZ accent....and drinking plenty of the local produce as well as that made by Seans fair hand....a very good brew indeed.
Ren and I had arranged to fly to Christchurch on the Monday and pick up a campervan....oh bliss....home for more than two nights. When we met Colin.....and here I must apologise to all called Colin and who aren't camp and all of those who are camp and are not called Colin but he was a dream. Little bows around the floral soft furnishing and all the trimmings. We immediately set out to harm him by accidentally placing unleaded petrol instead of his usual tipple of diesel......needless to say we were quite red faced when the campervan engineer turned up an hour later as we had only made it under 1/2 a mile.....cest la vie.
We toured around the south island to begin. Taking in the sights of Akaroa, Kaikoura and the most beautiful sperm whales, finding our own spot along the river outside Renwick and chomping on fresh crayfish and cheese & biscuits whilst gazing into the fire (this is were we heard the fantastic news about baby Tara, well done Ann & Paul!), doing an 800 km round trip down the South island in one day and night to see the Franz Josef Galcier and walk up to it at dawn, spending a day collecting and cleaning loads of mussles which Ren made into a fab moules mariniere in Kaiteriteri, kayaking along the coast of Abel Tasman, Sailing out in Havelock to catch our own supper....many fish (I caught a Barracuda and a Shark! Ren caught all the decent fish though) and then cooking them!
One suprising incident happened when we had arrived in Picton (the place to get the Ferry from South Island to North Island) and we found a very local pub (with own husband/wife argument!) only to turn around and meet one on Renato's friends from Vodafone, Alan Bird! We proceeded to enjoy a manic night out..hunting down the local hotspots...there was one! A great time and huge hangover occured!
We headed over to the north island and Roturoa (ohh what a smell!) as there is a large amount of thermal activity there and therefore sulphar, but spending a magical night learning about the Maori culture, we drove back up to S&G's to say goodbye to Colin and spend one more night putting the world to rights with S&G...thank you both very much for your hospitality and the knitting lessons!
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