We mentioned in one of our previous blog, our trip to Marlborough wine region. We made a little video blog of it but we've had trouble putting it on so, until we manage to sort it out, I'll give a brief summary of it. We hired bikes, we drank free wine, we got drunk. We were booked on to the Cook Straight (the stretch of water separating North and South island) ferry the next afternoon, so after a slightly groggy morning, we started to make our way up to the ferry terminal in Picton. We stopped for lunch in a little town called Havelock which is famous for its green mussels. For those who don't know already, mussels and a hangover don't go too well together, but we managed to polish off the majority of them.
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