March 28, 2008
o I’m sitting in our living room at Polkobin Inn Chateau eating a Fruit and Nut bar and reviewing our day. We arrived here from Sydney late last night, March 27th, after a long and dark nights drive, in a foreign country, in a rental car, with poor directions We started early from Geraldine, NZ because we had to drive to Christchurch to return the rental car and go through customs then fly to Sydney (3 hours) and go through customs all over again. Our drive to Polkobin from Sydney was impeded by being in the wrong lane to turn when we spotted the sign too late. We wandered about in the Sydney suburbs always making progress but slowly. Once we got on the Pacific Coast highway we had that part of the journey iced. Ah, but then we got to the Hunter Valley, renowned for its winemaking, and we had small town streets and county roads to contend with. Another propensity of the Aussie’s that complicates things is their habit of changing the name of the road you are on every 2 or 3 kilometers or so. Plus they rarely identify the road you are on just the intersecting roads, maybe. I considered it a miracle that we arrive here at all. Today we rested even taking the laundry into town to have it done. The height of laziness but wonderful. We wandered around looking for a place to have dinner and found the BBQ Barn. They were awed by a real life USA cowboy so our service was exceptional as was the steak and ribs. The pics we wanted to post would not work. More later!
o March 25th
We spent this day at Riverbank Cottage with Lex and Sheila. She’s a wonderful quilter and along with the B& B sells hand made quilts and a wonderful variety of hand made items like purses, coasters, and scarves. We had dinner in Arrowtown, beer battered Blue Cod it was great! Lex and Sheila made us feel very welcome.
o March 26th
We drove to Geraldine this day stopping along the way at Mount Cook. Mount Cook is the highest point in the Southern Alps. We spent the night at Silverton Farmstay with Ken and Liz Rutherford. This visit included a dinner with our hosts. Margaret Smith and Jan from Calgary, Canada were also guests so we had a lively dinner featuring New England Boiled dinner; corned beef, potatoes, onions and carrots with buttered bread pudding and ice cream for dessert.
o I’m sitting in our living room at Polkobin Inn Chateau eating a Fruit and Nut bar and reviewing our day. We arrived here from Sydney late last night, March 27th, after a long and dark nights drive, in a foreign country, in a rental car, with poor directions We started early from Geraldine, NZ because we had to drive to Christchurch to return the rental car and go through customs then fly to Sydney (3 hours) and go through customs all over again. Our drive to Polkobin from Sydney was impeded by being in the wrong lane to turn when we spotted the sign too late. We wandered about in the Sydney suburbs always making progress but slowly. Once we got on the Pacific Coast highway we had that part of the journey iced. Ah, but then we got to the Hunter Valley, renowned for its winemaking, and we had small town streets and county roads to contend with. Another propensity of the Aussie’s that complicates things is their habit of changing the name of the road you are on every 2 or 3 kilometers or so. Plus they rarely identify the road you are on just the intersecting roads, maybe. I considered it a miracle that we arrive here at all. Today we rested even taking the laundry into town to have it done. The height of laziness but wonderful. We wandered around looking for a place to have dinner and found the BBQ Barn. They were awed by a real life USA cowboy so our service was exceptional as was the steak and ribs. The pics we wanted to post would not work. More later!
o March 25th
We spent this day at Riverbank Cottage with Lex and Sheila. She’s a wonderful quilter and along with the B& B sells hand made quilts and a wonderful variety of hand made items like purses, coasters, and scarves. We had dinner in Arrowtown, beer battered Blue Cod it was great! Lex and Sheila made us feel very welcome.
o March 26th
We drove to Geraldine this day stopping along the way at Mount Cook. Mount Cook is the highest point in the Southern Alps. We spent the night at Silverton Farmstay with Ken and Liz Rutherford. This visit included a dinner with our hosts. Margaret Smith and Jan from Calgary, Canada were also guests so we had a lively dinner featuring New England Boiled dinner; corned beef, potatoes, onions and carrots with buttered bread pudding and ice cream for dessert.
1 comment:
HI, was not able to get on your blog till son came down the 22nd He had to show us how to do it.
was DEls birhtday the 23rd.[EASTER one time only in his life time].
Enjoyed your blog the narritive, the pictures & especially the chow.
We danced once to Laural. Had one sq.
See you when you return DEL & CLARA
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