Hot Hot Hot Hawkes Bay (Napier)

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We hopped in the van the next day, and raced up to Napier, the art deco city. Very pretty, very nice place, we liked Napier. We did a wine tour in the afternoon, but a proper one this time with transport so we could both drink the wines! What a beautiful afternoon - the sun was out, it was really hot and we sat in winery gardens sipping on loads of yummy wines. We found the reds extremely nice indeed, the whites (sav b anyway) we preferred from Marlborough. We met a really nice group of English guys on the tour (another 4 plus us), two also on honeymoon and one on a 'pre honeymoon honeymoon' who were travelling the world before getting married next year on the 22 August, aaah. Really nice guys - especially this couple who were also divers and we swapped notes. They were off to Oz next so we beseached them to do the Yongala and our live-aboard in Cairns.

We spent the evening in the campervan, although we had planned to head into town, we realised we have quite a lot of wine left and only a few days now before we drop the van off! Still, fish n chips take away was very nice washed down with some beautiful wine. All in all a very good day.

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