Wednesday 29 September
We went out for dinner last night with Len and Shelley, it was really good to see them after such a long time.
We left Nelson this morning, heading to Kaikoura. It was a fairly uneventful drive, stopping in Blenheim for a coffee, and then just north of Kaikoura for a crayfish lunch – very tasty indeed!
The drive along the coastal road was beautiful, the road goes along a very narrow coastal plain, with sea on one side and the snow-capped mountains on the other side, and runs beside the railway line we travelled on when we reached the South Island about 10 days ago.
We are going to the Pier Hotel for dinner tonight, then back to the motel to pack for the flight home, so this will be the last post for this blog. It’s been a great holiday, and we plan to come back to see some more in the future.
Some random thoughts about NZ:
Speed humps are called judder bars.
A cup of hot chips is called a pottle.
We saw more dairy cows than sheep, I think.
The North Island is a large dairy farm, and the South Island is turning into one.
NZ produces about 1/3 of the world’s milk.
The little channels through the paddocks (fields??) in the North Island aren’t irrigation channels but drainage ditches.
The two islands are totally different – the north is flatter, with undulating hills, while the south is really alpine. Both are beautiful but in different ways.
The people are really friendly. We had a young Maori guide at Waitangi who said ‘We’re all ANZACs, aren’t we?’
They really take rugby seriously. No one mentioned cricket.
New Zealanders are very proud of their country, and its achievements in all fields.
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