So, ok, it’s winter in New Zealand, right? Well, technically it’s fall – the official winter starts of course on June 21st – compare this with December 21st in the Northern hemisphere and you get my point – it should be winter, right?!
Anyway, it was definitely cold this morning. It had probably come close to freezing overnight and in our house it was only 9 degrees Celsius. Which is very chilly, if you have single glass windows, no heating or isolation and you can see through the cracks of the windows and doors…
However, the sun was around pretty much all day and it warmed up nicely to a sizzling 16 degrees Celsius. In the sun that would have been around 20!
In fact, it was so nice that I decided to go tramping (NZ word for hiking) for a bit in our neighbourhood (Bas takes the car to work, so I usually either go by foot or bus if I want to do something). I could almost have put on shorts, cause it was so nice out! No jacket needed for sure!
I went towards a part of our area, where I hadn’t been before (Oratia). This was the route of the walk I did (click to enlarge):
It was about 7km which took me just about 1.5 hours. And here are some pictures of views and flora in our area during this walk. At the turning point there was a little orchard with fresh apples for sale, and I had the best apple that I’ve had for ages, for only 20 cents. 🙂
Oh, by the way, this is winter, right!? 😉