Woke up this morning to find out it had been raining overnight and by golly do they need it. It was not too much and the sun quickly cleared the clouds away.
We headed off from the Motel around 10 am, the Motel was OK, modern and clean but was a bit noisy from the main road.
We had decided to take a circular route to Timaru and so went out to the hills stopping several times for either a cup of tea, lunch and the odd town walk around. Our route took us West to little towns called Mayfield, Arundel and Geraldine where we stopped to buy lunch. We have seen lots of sheep and also Deer (venison to you) in the fields as we passed by. Geraldine was more of a tourist town which seems to rely on the coachloads of tourist passing through as there were many shops selling NZ touristy stuff. By mid afternoon we had arrived in Timaru which is not really famous for anything except it has a container port, lots of restaurants and bars all of which were open but empty however we had a good walk round and a glass of wine overlooking
the bay. In the meantime the clouds had returned and so we walked back to the Motel to cook our evening meal.On our arrival in to Timaru we had passed a large food store where we stopped to buy some Salmon and Shrimps which Jennifer will turn into a magnificent meal of Salmon and Shrimps with salad. In the store they were selling bottles of wine for NZ$ 5.00 very cheapo indeed however considering everything it was not to bad. Wine seems quite expensive here, with the cheapest bottles around 7 pounds Sterling, when you think they make the stuff here it should be cheaper and I can only assume its tax.
