It was a beautiful day with warmer temperatures forecast up to 31C. We had a small breakfast from the buffet. We are getting fooded out but it’s hard to resist. We loaded straight into the van and had about an hours drive to the Clare Valley. The road seemed very bumpy for us in the […]

There was a nice buffet breakfast at the Mayfair (which we didn’t need) and we were all ready to go at 9am. The bikes were on a trailer behind the Tour de Vin van but of course the parking space was full so the driver had to go around the block several times. It was […]

It’s much cooler today and even a bit rainy. Since we arrived on Sunday daytime temperatures have been between 35C and 39C which is a bit confronting for us Waikato souls. Today the high is a chilly 26C which suits us perfectly. We had a nice breakfast at Alba. The granola would never be mushy […]

We had booked breakfast at Peter Rabbit which is a cafe not far from Rundle Mall, which is the pedestrianised shopping area in the CBD. It had good reviews and seemed a bit quirky. Well it’s certainly quirky and well worth a visit. No evidence of any rabbits except for a small statue inside but […]

We had agreed that Fiona and Steve would selections the breakfast location for today. Not that we didn’t enjoy the offering at the Alba – we just thought it would be nice to see more of the city. We met downstairs at 9 and got an Uber down to the selected cafe which overlooks the […]

I started the day with a client Microsoft Teams meeting with NZTA at 8.30. Despite best efforts it was a bit of a drama getting connected but I was relieved to find that the NZTA team took another 5 minutes to connect to the engineers in one of their meeting rooms. All and all a […]

Our flight was changed on Thursday when AirNZ cancelled the direct flight to Adelaide. We had already arranged to drive up to Auckland on Saturday evening as the flight was early Sunday. Our new arrangements meant we had to fly via Melbourne. Steve and Fiona had a different booking so they ended up flying via […]