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Hi people!
I'm now in Melbourne after a very reluctant departure from New Zealand. Despite the tradegy of grandma breaking down on us on the busiest motorway in the whole of NZ (not impressed!) we had a fantastic last 5 days in Auckland. We were told our van had 'major problems' and decided to abandon her at the garage and went to stay with good friends of my parents Leone and Graeme - what stars they are, we were provided with 'proper' beds, real food, wine and a TV!! Pure luxury after our van.
Over the weekend we were invited to stay in Devonport with some other friends of the family, Fred and Kaye and we spoilt equally well there! We went to the local food and wine festival which was superb and was like a mini music festival just with a lot of wine tasting going on! In the evening we were all treated to a scrumptious meal and the next day visited some gorgeous beaches and had a lovely BBQ.
Our last night in NZ was spent on Peha beach which leone informed me my dad used to spend his days surfing all the time! It was another stunning beach and we had a yummy picnic again eating and drinking lovely grub!
From me, Nosh and Gill a BIG BIG thankyou to both leone & Graeme and Fred and Kaye for putting us up we had a brilliant time and were glad that our van broke down so that we could stay with you guys!
Melbourne is good, although we're still all sad from leaving NZ we all loved it there so much and will definetely be going back to visit again at some point. On a good note i was just shopping at the local supermarket and bumped into another friend of mine from Xerox who I haven't seen in 2 years! Good to see you Kim! Its such a small world!
Hope everything is well at home,
Missing ya all x
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