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Long driving day.. and nowt to do with golf!
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Hi All
First the good news. Slept like a log last night thanks to the bottle of Pinot that I enjoyed with my steak.. but then a glass of even better Pinot courtesy of my table guest Jill who writes tour guides and "does" restaurants and wineries and had just been involved in a Pinot Noir symposium and happened to have her own bottle,. Very good but then Sally arrived, a very nice Austrian lady that I had met on sunday evening. She had enjoyed a glass of MY Pinot and I suggested that she should take the remaining half+ bottle that was left and to enjoy whilst I was away. She instead had saved it to shatre with me on my return, so we finished that of at about 11:30.
And so this morning, in gathering cloud I drove to Queenstown to pick up Anke and we drove down to Dunedin. Arranged to meet again in Queenstown 12th to go off to Able Tasman together.
It was nice to get back to e-mail country and the "Bramble " buzzed away with welcome 'mails.
Its still a long way from Dunedin to Bluff which is where I am now. Unfortunately I cant get the pictures to download from the camera so once again I must ask you to be patient. Maybe tomorrow night on Stewart Island. The weather is true roaring forties type stuff and rain is now lashing the windows. Ah Well! It's been very good up until now.
Apart from blisters, the blessed sand fly bites are really playing up and I just hope that I can get to sleep.
best wishes.. and so to bed! Grandad
First the good news. Slept like a log last night thanks to the bottle of Pinot that I enjoyed with my steak.. but then a glass of even better Pinot courtesy of my table guest Jill who writes tour guides and "does" restaurants and wineries and had just been involved in a Pinot Noir symposium and happened to have her own bottle,. Very good but then Sally arrived, a very nice Austrian lady that I had met on sunday evening. She had enjoyed a glass of MY Pinot and I suggested that she should take the remaining half+ bottle that was left and to enjoy whilst I was away. She instead had saved it to shatre with me on my return, so we finished that of at about 11:30.
And so this morning, in gathering cloud I drove to Queenstown to pick up Anke and we drove down to Dunedin. Arranged to meet again in Queenstown 12th to go off to Able Tasman together.
It was nice to get back to e-mail country and the "Bramble " buzzed away with welcome 'mails.
Its still a long way from Dunedin to Bluff which is where I am now. Unfortunately I cant get the pictures to download from the camera so once again I must ask you to be patient. Maybe tomorrow night on Stewart Island. The weather is true roaring forties type stuff and rain is now lashing the windows. Ah Well! It's been very good up until now.
Apart from blisters, the blessed sand fly bites are really playing up and I just hope that I can get to sleep.
best wishes.. and so to bed! Grandad
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Maureen
3:13 PM on February 6, 2009
Pleased to hear from you again,you are meeting so many super people were ever you go its that graham charm.!!!!
Hope blisters soon heal and flies stop biting
Love Moxx
Hope blisters soon heal and flies stop biting
Love Moxx
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Amanda Wasilewski
3:45 PM on February 6, 2009
When we did Milford we got bitten all over by sand flies at the end .... and I thought, 'hey, this is fine, they don't itch' but 2 days later I turned in to the Elephant Man and scratched my way through Hawaii - Scottish midges - pah, they have much to learn!!!! (Mind you, Scottish midges must be buried in shed loads of snow at the mo - we certainly have been!)
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