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Wine tasting etc

Posted on Feb. 3, 2007 at 06:34 (Subscribe)
oops, it appeared I ran out of web time there... silly coin operated computers...
Anyway as I was saying:
I went to the Abel Tasman national park on a lovely day, there was blue sky, blue sea, golden beaches and lots of greenery, beautiful.  I walked a section of the Abel Tasman track, transported into and out of the park by water taxi. (it did take some convincing of the guy that booked it for me that I was capable of walking that far in the given time.. not like I was carrying a tent or anything..) The walk was lovely, not to many people around and the views were lovely, had nice swim in the sea at the end too. 

So the winetasting, result, drank a lot of different wine, mostly delicious, was very drunk after seven wineries, a distillery and several other bottles of wine...  I went with a couple I met in the hostel.  We drove out to some of the further wineries in the morning, including Cloudy Bay where the wine was really lovely, look out for it people! We bought a nice bottle from here to drink later.  We also went to a place that did some lovely olive oils and things too.   Really nice herby and garlic infused oils, yum.  The vinyards were really beautiful too, great scenery!  After some lunch in the hostel we hired som bikes and went out to a few more places.  The larger places were a lot less friendly, think they could tell we weren't going to buy a lot... wine wasn't always the best either..  The last place we went was Lawsons dry hills, got there just before they closed and tried all the wines (seven of them) and chatted to the friendly guy hwho was full of usefull information, wine was lovely too.  So after that (and a trip to a distillery where there was a very friendly lady who wouldn't let us leave until we'd tried most of the liquers in various combinations...) we had a bit of a wobbly ride back to the hostel.  We came to the conclusion that we hadn't already drunk enough so we drank several other bottles (cheapo from the supermarket, but better than the cheap stuff at home) and attempted to have a game of trivial pursuit.  This was quite hard given the drunkeness and the fact that it was an ancient New Zealand edition and my knowledge of Kiwi sports stars from the 70s and 80s is pretty limited... Very funny anyway...
Today I somehow managed to make it to the ferry in Picton accompanied by my hangover.  Its a really nice ferry ride, good views of Queen Charlotte sound.  Been for a wander around Wellington and looked at the boats and stuff, it seems nice.  Tomorrow I'm heading to the Tongariro national Park.

So where do I need to put the bread to make an earth sandwich with some help from back home, will I be anywhere appropriate?
Sandwich
Posted on Feb. 18, 2007 at 05:43 by Anonymous
Hey Salami on Rye.

Reciprocal Lat / Long for me is

Lat 39.50.00 S
Long 177.24,33 E

Which is somewhere around collingwood on the South Island.

If you butter some Bread (Rye) i'll stick the salami on my bit and you can add the garnish.

Then come home soon.:-)

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