After 6 months we said Adios to South America and hello to New Zeland. As soon as we landed the first thing we noticed was we could actually understand people and be understood, being able to speak English again was bliss, although the occasional 'gracias' kept slipping through at first!!
Now i know i have been neglecting the sandwich part of this blog, but that's because there hasnt really been much to write about in South America, how many times can you describe cheese and ham?! But within a few minutes of being in NZ I could tell it was going to be another story...cheese and chutney, chicken and apricot, bacon and egg, ham, cheese and pineapple and so many different breads and wraps and pitas. Oooh the excitement! But the pinnacle was the scotch egg!
Arch and Ana met us at the airport and took us under their wing to give us a great welcome to NZ. First stop was brekkie, I was totally impressed with the HP sauce and Englishness of everything on the menu, some serious eating was going to be taking place over the next few weeks! Much coffee later and after a tour of Auckland's finest streets we headed for Waipu, a small town with a Scottish heritage in the Northland region of NZ, home to Ana before London and the place that Ana and Arch would be calling home until they get their own pad. The drive was through beautiful scenery on deserted roads, we hardly saw another car! Ana is a font of local knowledge so we got a superb intro to NZ history and geology on the way.
Waipu is a very small and cute place with some great beaches just a short drive away from Anna's mum's 'shack'. We spent a couple of hours on the sand and then the sun gave way to clouds and soon a storm was brewing (we since found out from the local paper that the lightening was so intense in some areas that the local services got calls from people who thought that WWIII was starting!) so we decided to sample the local beers and get the barbie on the go...we went to sleep with full and happy bellies!
View of Waipu
Beach just round the corner from Ana and Arch
The barbie
Early morning, lots of coffee
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