OK. listen up - here's the plan.
We get the 9am ferry to Picton on Wednesday.
A rental car is booked for pick-up at Picton and we'll drive to Kaikoura where we stay at the Kaikoura Boutique Hotel on the waterfront.
On Thursday morning we tootle around Kaikoura. I'm interested in checking out signs of the major earthquake that wrecked the place a few years back. I studied seismology and volcanology at university in the 1970s. It was one of the few courses I liked, attended the lectures and passed with a good grade.
We will then drive to Blenheim and stay in a vineyard cottages B&B on Thursday and Friday nights. This gives us a day and a half to explore a couple of favourite wineries.* It will be a treat doing this as a tourist rather than as someone in the industry as I spent many years in the past visiting and staying in Marlborough.
On Saturday morning we head on back to Picton to drop off the rental car and catch the 2pm ferry back to Wellington.
This is all booked via the internet so here's hoping that it all goes well. The accommodation places looked reasonable on-line but sometimes the reality is a bit different from the promise.
It'll be a nice break away for The Old Girl who has been working very hard. Let's hope that the weather is good.
* I won't be trying any chardonnay.
2 comments:
So you will not be joining us at the Fox and Hounds. I would have accepted a simple no instead of having to book an entire holiday!
Will you be incognito when you revisit those vineries you previously visited on a professional bases?
Enjoy your break. Sorry about the chardy.
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