The sun, oh dear, was shining like crazy again this morning as we headed off to the beach. A few more people on the beach already at 0900 this morning than there have been for a few days.
There were two coaches of tourists at the Taipa Bay Resort this morning, a mixed bunch of nationalities no doubt all fighting for the use of the two ladies Loos inside the Hotel.
We arrived back at the house and got going cleaning anything that did not move. Noel did the bathrooms and helped on the floors whilst Jennifer did the laundry stuff, no ironing for her ladyship whilst on vacation though only washing. By the time we had completed the through kitchen and entrance hall tiles twice it was time for breakfast but now it was lunchtime. So we carried our food outside and for the benefit of anybody that might be interested said loudly that this was an early lunch.
Time for a shower and discuss tonight’s dinner and so we headed to our favourite butcher for some lamb chops that had been pre-marinated in honey and Soya sauce and just needed Noel’s velvet touch.
Noel was just getting ready for a brief check of the inside of the eyelids when Robin phoned and invited us over for tea and cake, we arrived at the same time as an unexpected Bed & Breakfast guest. The lady had been before and arrived without notice except that her mostly uncovered 40” DD’s arrived through the door before her. Even the muffins with cherries on the top now looked small.
Back home we started looking at our travel options for February. We have booked the car hire through a local company in Kaitaia at a very good price for a large car and also booked the ferry from Wellington to Picton which is a three hour sea crossing from North to South Island.
We plan to leave the house in Taipa on Saturday 31st January and head south and plan to stop near Hamilton which is about 300 miles from here and then the next day arrive late afternoon in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, for one night.
Our Interislander ferry is booked for 1030 am the next day and so 3.5 hours later we shall be on our way in South island and most likely heading for Christchurch for the night. This will leave us about 8 hours on the final days drive to Te Anau which is on the bottom left hand side of South island and close to Doubtful Sound and also Milford sound where we plan to spend six or seven days. So we discussed this and will pretty much do as planned but we will not book motels just yet as there is still plenty of time and by February the prices should be dropping as tourism is also down here. Afterwards we had a brief spell in the Spa to work away at the tired muscles and then cooked the lamb chops which were beautifully prepared by the husband of the house.
Whoops, another nice sunset passes by, boy we will miss these.
We watched the second half of the ‘Calendar Girls’ film and then headed for the sack. A pleasant day indeed and it was hot today at around 28 degrees centigrade we reckon.
