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Today was the one day at this Thursday-Sunday Art Deco Festival when we had some structure to follow, as we had booked tickets for 3 paid events and had arranged to attend 2 free ones too…so this meant many “costume” changes for Julie 😉 Event 1 – Walking Tour Under a, by now, very familiar
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Today, now very keen to transfer to our hotel in the centre of Napier, we said goodbye to Mangapapa, on yet another blue sky day (at this point we had begun to think we had been pretty lucky with our weather for our 8 weeks exploring NZ😎🇳🇿) Despite some roadworks, the now familiar approach seemed
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With a definite Groundhog Day feel about it we were blessed by waking to another blue sky day, with a forecast set to peak at c.27C…again😎🇳🇿 After having had our now “fave” breakfast of “Eggs Bene” with smoked salmon (the Kiwis definitely like to be economical with their syllables, this being Eggs Benedict, of course,
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Because of what happened in the Hawke’s Bay region last year Valentine’s Day will always, for many years to come, have a totally different meaning… Fortunately, today could hardly have been of greater contrast with the high pressure continuing as we were greeted by yet another calm, blue sky day…😎 Before breakfast we could see
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With today opening with high pressure yet again we took the opportunity to say Good Morning to Nessie, McDuff and Fergus; they may be miniature “hieland coos”, but they are perfectly formed😉 June and Bill have put in a huge amount of work establishing their “lifestyle block” … and it shows! For example, they are
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With the prospect of yet another gorgeous day ahead of us, June was set to be our local guide as Bill set about some serious garden maintenance ahead of their house showing at the weekend… Meantime we took in more of their lifestyle block… Our first stop was in the tree lined Havelock North area
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Today was all about our 2nd transition day that would take us south to Maraekakaho – close to Napier. One of Julie’s “besties”, June, whom she met at their Dundee school 50 years ago, emigrated here 14 years ago; with her partner Bill they’ve built 2 homes here, so we were delighted at the prospect
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Today, apart from being Chinese New Year, would be a transition day with us collecting our rental car and then driving to Tauranga… Elaine ensured we were packed, fed and watered then drove us to the airport to collect our hire car, arriving promptly at 9 am, despite a wee hold up… … however, no
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First things first…today was my sister Sheila’s dum de dumth birthday, so Hearty Birthday Greetings from Whangarie😊🎉🥂 We next returned to the Hertz car hire rental saga, eventually managing to get to speak to someone on the same desk…from Avis! “No worries mate, I’ll tell ’em… when they turn up” was the semi-reassuring reply, so
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After bidding Au Revoir to Gail and Ian at c. 9.30 am today was set to be right up there on the Chillaxing Scale, but first a wee jog up the hill to collect the local paper🏃🏽♂️😉 And then a wee admin task… We are due to collect a hire car, courtesy of Hertz Rentals
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