Day Eight - Wellington

Early start for a Sunday morning as Jackie and I caught the bus into the city to go to the local market. It is in two halves; food and food to eat.  We had look

Oriental Bay, Wellington

around the food to eat bit then went and brought some asparagus.  The price of food is rather expensive here and no one knows why.  For example, a pepper, that is one pepper is $1.50 which is around 85p. A cucumber is $2 which is around £1.08. The Farmer's market was good. We then went to get something to eat, I had paella and Jackie had a German sausage. We then went for coffee and sat in the sunshine albeit it very windy. Had my holiday ice cream treat of two fruits I have never heard of - boysenberries and frijoes. It was delicious. 

Back home and it was time to catch up on some chores.  Then out of the blue

you receive a message, a lovely message that just makes you feel meh!  Whilst communication can be a wonderful tool, it can also be a curse too!  Anyway, moving on ...........

Spent the afternoon planning the rest of my stay. It took quite a long time as both myself and Jackie's partner can be stubborn and whilst I appreciate people's generosity, I am also fiercely independent.  Also, it is generous enough them letting me stay with them whilst I am here let alone to pay for days away.  Finally, itinerary completed. On a completely different note, my face has caught the sun today and it is really warm. You really do not realise how fierce the sun is, especially with the wind too.  I will go and put some more moisturising on in a bit.  I was going to go for a walk along the beach but decided not too.  There is always tomorrow.

As always, with my love x