Here it is; the final photo blog with pictures of Maria’s stay in New Zealand.
It was a beautiful sunny day when we were walking part of the Abel Tasman track on October 7th. We had booked the Abel Tasman National Park Discoverer Day package. The boat cruising along the coast dropped us off at Bark Bay around 11.30am and picked us up at Anchorage Bay 12 km further at 3.30pm. It was a gorgeous walk and the views were stunning at times! After that we drove on to Nelson, where we stayed the night.
The next day we drove from Nelson to Picton, but we did a bit of detour towards Seddon, to visit the Yealands Estate winery. This remarkable vineyard even produces wine for the Dutch market and we had actually had a couple of their wines with our Christmas dinner last year! We had a nice tour and tasting, before returning to Picton. We went to bed early, because we had booked the early (7am) ferry, which meant we had to check in at 6am and therefore get up at 5! Ouch!
However, this gave us the opportunity to drive from Wellington to Turangi on Tuesday, and arrive there quite early (around 3pm), leaving us some time to relax, go for a beautiful walk around the village, have dinner and sleep before heading back to Auckland on Wednesday the 10th.
We were back home around 2pm. Since it was Maria’s last day (she had to fly back to the Netherlands on Thursday the 11th of October) we spent the day unpacking and packing, relaxing, going out for dinner in Titirangi (delicious Indian food) and watching Boer zoekt Vrouw on Uitzendinggemist together 🙂 It was difficult to say goodbye on Thursday morning, but we definitely have had some incredible 3 weeks creating many lovely shared memories!
Bas and I only had a few more days off, before we both had to go ‘back to reality’ (working), which we spent relaxing and preparing for the last term of the school year. Time is flying actually, since this is already Bas’ final term teaching in New Zealand, but we’ll tell you more about our plans for the future in our next blog. Stay tuned!