Noel was hungry and so embarked on preparation for a full English breakfast which took a little while to prepare but was really excellent if not filling.We had decided to take a drive out to a place called Fern Flats, where there were certainly lots of tree ferns but no flats that we could find. The ferns and trees were growing about 30 feet high and it was like driving through a tunnel, a very long tunnel on what they call white roads, which means they are gravel roads or almost finished type roads.
The views were seen occasionally through the trees and so after about an hour and a half we headed back home via Mangonui which was bustling with about twenty or so cars.During our drive we saw this caravan with a solar panel in somebody's garden and they also had a different one further back but mostly hidden from view.
A fast walk was therefore called for to work off what we had eaten in the morning but also to get some exercise. It was a bit windy this afternoon but it was still a pleasant walk and we hurried home to get the evening dinner started.
Mid afternoon Robin arrived in his ‘Italian Job’ car a Lancia and he stayed for a cup of tea but could not get the car up the steep driveway and it needed about seven attempts with even greater amounts of revs and noise and significant wheel spinning as he shot up the drive and out in to the centre of the road about three feet in the air. Just like a Disney cartoon.
The rest of the evening with Valda was very nice indeed and she left about nine thirty and we watched a strange Czech film on the World Cinema channel. Anyway by 1130 pm we’d had enough of it and went to bed.
