An early start as we had a big drive ahead. After a couple of hours on the road we made our first stop, in a small town called Woodville. Now you would be forgiven for not having heard of this place, it is merely at a junction of two major highways, however there was a certain shop there!
Famous in these parts is Yummy Mummy’s Cheesecakes…and what is Nicola’s favourite pudding?! So, in we went…and out we came with boysenberry and white chocolate cheesecake, and Ben had a mince pie – which he shared with Nicola for elevenses.
Next stop was Mangatainoka village, a standard back country village…couple of houses, couple of farms….BUT this place has something different! The Tui Brewery, and how could we pass this place and the chance of a spot of ‘tasting’.
Now, as Nicola was driving Ben had to charitably drink her beer tokens…slippery slope people, especially at 11am and months out of practise!
6 tokens later and we were hitting the road heading further south, stopping next at Pukaha Mount Bruce, a bird sanctuary for NZ’s endangered birdlife. We were lucky enough to see native eels, kakariki, kokako, kiwi and the lovely kaka (we think they liked the letter ‘k’ when naming their birdlife!).
Ben got up close and personal with the kaka, a NZ parrot.
Our final drive of the day was to the wine capital of the Wellington region – Martinborough, where we got a site at the village campsite. After dinner we tucked into our delicious cheesecake…and yes, Nicola DID share it with Ben ;-)!
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