The Sanity Clause

Well I’m still catching up on writing about stuff that I’ve done recently. A few weekends now, some friends, Sibylle, Brian and Ferrida, and I hired a house in Martinborough for the weekend. It was a fantastic place - built from an old grocery store. We got there on the Saturday, dumped our stuff at the house and then went to Alana Winery for some lunch and a bit of wine tasting.

It was then onto a couple more wineries, Te Kairanga and Ata Rangi. I’ve not really drunk much wine since I’ve been here so it was nice to final taste a few different ones - okay - alot of different ones.

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I’ve been pretty slack again at posting but this time it’s mainly been to actually being busy. Well mostly anyway. Nearly a month ago now I went to Melbourne to visit my cousins. I only had a long weekend there but it was fantastic to see them all, especially Emily and Hannah, my cousin’s two daughters. On the friday, I went to the Pixar animation exhibition at Federation square and also did a bit of shopping.

Saturday, we all went down the Ocean Road to Lorne where we had a bit of a picnic. and then took a ferry across the bay. I then sat up chatting to my cousin, Sue, until nearly 2am. Sue, the girls and I went to the Boathouse at Fairfield park for a coffee and a bit of a walk and then I had a lovely home cooked sunday roast. It was then back to Wellington in the evening. I’m already looking forward to getting back to see them all for a longer visit though.