Sunday 22nd February- It’s Sunday so it must be Fish and Chips

This weather is so contrary, one day it is great and then the next day it’s not.

Today it’s fantastic with wall to wall sun and a rising temperature.

It was a wonderful day to sit on our little site and read our books and put on plenty of suntan lotion. We had decided that Sunday would be a good day to try the world famous Akaroa Fish Shop again.

So shortly before one pm we headed off and parked one end of the town and then walked the few kilometres to the Fish and Chip shop. We sat in the sun eating our expertly fried Blue Cod and Chips and it was bloody delicious. This was followed by a walk along the sea front to the lighthouse which was open for inspection and then back for an ice cream and see what is on at the cinema tonight.

Not the cinema again I can hear readers say, but what else can you do when it’s dark in a tent and it’s too late to make babies now.

The film we saw was a French Film which was called “The Sticks” in English. It revolves around a small town Post Office Manager who was looking for promotion and many of the tricks he used, including pretending to be physically handicapped, in order to gain promotion did not work. He lived in the South of France and as he had been caught cheating he was demoted to the North of France to a small village just outside of Lille. At first he did not like the location, but slowly he became enamoured with the place and people, who also spoke a regional dialect which the Southern French did not quite understand. The rest of the info can be obtained on the web but it is a really amusing film and well worth seeing.

Tomorrow they have promised us rain again and also as we are due to leave here on Tuesday morning we have to decide on our plan for the next few days. Also our visit to Kaikoura where we both want to go whale hunting (with camera) of course has to be booked. We also need to book our ferry back to the North Island and so perhaps a busy day ahead. Well busy for us anyway.

NB