Back to New Zealand
We landed back in Auckland airport at 9pm on Sunday night where we were met by our great host Richard. We stayed the night at Richard and Hilda's and headed off in our grumbling car for Raglan.
We stopped in at the supermarket to get our shopping for the next few days. The woman at the check out asked how long I was in New Zealand, where I was going, where I'd been and said 'Good on you, enjoy the rest of your holiday'. And there it was, that's the difference between this place and across the Tasman.
We got to the hostel and the woman at reception was even more friendly and cheery. Add to that we travelled through GREEN scenery, through rolling hills, past trees and streams. It's so good to be back.
Our hostel here in Raglan is excellent the view from our room balcony is incredible, across the eastuary to the cloud tipped mountain in the distance.
Raglan is the surf capital of New Zealand and has reputedly the longest 'left break' in the world. It's a very chilled out place and even more so now as the autumn closes in. The rain poured down all night and continues intermittently today. It's still warm though.
Today is ANZAC day, the Aussie/New Zealand equivalent of Armistice Day. It's a public holiday and every town has a parade to remember the war dead, especially those killed at Gollipoli. They are very sincere about it and it's a big deal.
Anyway we might try out the surf tomorrow, we'll see what the weather holds.
Happy days are here again.....
We stopped in at the supermarket to get our shopping for the next few days. The woman at the check out asked how long I was in New Zealand, where I was going, where I'd been and said 'Good on you, enjoy the rest of your holiday'. And there it was, that's the difference between this place and across the Tasman.
We got to the hostel and the woman at reception was even more friendly and cheery. Add to that we travelled through GREEN scenery, through rolling hills, past trees and streams. It's so good to be back.
Our hostel here in Raglan is excellent the view from our room balcony is incredible, across the eastuary to the cloud tipped mountain in the distance.
Raglan is the surf capital of New Zealand and has reputedly the longest 'left break' in the world. It's a very chilled out place and even more so now as the autumn closes in. The rain poured down all night and continues intermittently today. It's still warm though.
Today is ANZAC day, the Aussie/New Zealand equivalent of Armistice Day. It's a public holiday and every town has a parade to remember the war dead, especially those killed at Gollipoli. They are very sincere about it and it's a big deal.
Anyway we might try out the surf tomorrow, we'll see what the weather holds.
Happy days are here again.....
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