It was a nice morning with sun and when looking out the Novotel window was amazed to see loads of historic and classic cars entering the racecourse as no doubt there was a show on. See link
http://www.concours.org.nz/
there was Daimler s, Rolls R, MG's Bentley's and one by one for about an hour the filed in and all my camera batteries were flat so no photos.Damn, this can be a problem when camping and with no direct source of electricity. We have to keep mobiles, then Ipods and Pc up to date and so the camera batteries came last.
Anyway after a quick breakfast, always expensive in Hotels so we went for the continental and then departed to meet our friend Sheila who's maisonette we are staying in at a house near the airport.
From there we headed North through Auckland and the roads were surprisingly busy and this was no doubt do to a public holiday on Thursday last and so people take an extra day plus weekend and get out of town.
We stopped part the way up for a coffee and what turned out to be a delicious sausage roll and then via Keri Keri for some New World Shopping and then finally arriving in Taipa around 4.30 pm.
We unloaded the car and started to make ourselves at home for the next seven weeks and then joined Brian and Sheila and some other friends for a BBQ before heading back for bed around 9.30 pm as we were both a bit tired.
So tomorrow we start a normal lifestyle of beach walking, cooking and shopping and meeting friends and sunbathing and swimming so we will not continue this blog until we leave for Japan on 2nd April, as everyday here for the next few weeks will be as above.
