Arrived in New Zealand the day before yesterday – so as you can imagine we have been running around like blue a*sed flies! Great to finally get here and glad to see the back of aeroplanes.
Well what do we think of the place? Well it is just as we imagined only sooo much better – its just as you would wish England could be. Our first afternoon we went with Steph up to the Botanical Gardens to stretch our legs, travelled up on the cable car as the gardens are high above the city. What great views! And seeing that it is the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring it felt like an English summer day – well I think I can put up with that! Some of the flowers already out were wonderful – the daffodils, snowdrops and lilacs are all beginning to come out – feels strange seeing them at this time of year.
This morning we went car hunting for Robb, he’s found a Mitsubishi Gallant that he’s keen to buy – think he’s keen to get a decent car as Heather has got her heart set on having a beaten up old truck that she can bomb around in. She hasn’t seen the size of the hills here yet!
This afternoon we drove up on to the Kapiti Coast via Battle Hill, think Robb was quite taken with the lifestyle plots up there as he quite fancies living ‘in the woods’ as Heather wants chooks and ducks! If any of you have seen pictures of NZ rolling hills – that’s exactly what it’s like. We got to the top of the cliffs over looking the beaches and were paid a visit by a local glider pilot who buzzed us for a short while – waving as he flew just a few metres away.
Went for a walk along Waikanae Beach, it felt strange to hear crashing waves along the beach as the rollers came in – haven’t heard that for years. In the distance we could see the South Island and the hills of Marlborough Sound. Strange to think that just past that is the bottom of the world – Antarctica and penguins. Oh and talking of strange – yes water does go down the plug hole the wrong way here!
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