New Years day 2015
Started the year off with a lovey ride along the Hutt River down to Petone & return, back to N&J's for brunch before heading off to the Wairarapa staying at Ocean Beach for the night. Just as lovely as it was 3 years ago.
Friday - met up with N&J at Lake Ferry Hotel for lunch, lovely seaside setting. Everyone else had the same thought with the restaurant being booked out, but the bar meals were good value, and more pleasant sitting outside.
From here we went onto Cape Palliser Lighthouse, where we walked up all 252? steps. Called into Ngawi and watched the bulldozers launching and retreaving the boats on the beach. Very impresive skills of both boat and bulldozer operators. Back to Putangirua Doc camp where N&J had set up their tent earlier to mark our spot. You guys really need an air pump for that mattress - lucky you have young lungs!
The next day after a walk up around the Pinnacles at the back of the camp (Lord of the Rings "The Paths of the Dead") amazing natural formations, we headed off to bike ride around Martinborough's Wine Trail. Perfect day for the ride but with each Vineyard doing $5 tasting where the total volume of the tastings would be the equivalent of a whole glass, we were a little concerned about how many we could actually visit and still make it back to our vehicles. Nick was fine as he didn't participate not being into wines. There were a lot of Vineyards all around a small area, sooooo easy to visit, all looking their best before the summer takes hold and dries everything out. Poppies was ideal for our last tasting and a bite to eat. Poppie herself doing the tastings was very passionate about her wines and had the ideal set up with her partner being the Chef. Reminded us of the Hop Federation.
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