It was 30th Sep before we could make our trip down to Dunedin instead of the 3rd, to celebrate Alex turning 18. I felt quite nervous travelling after all this time, and once we arrived in Dunedin I found I had packed rather poorly - like putting in a dirty skivvy, and one pair of knickers too few. We only just connected up with Heather before our flight from Wellington to Dunedin where Jill picked us up and delivered us to our Air BnB. The instructions on the email on how to get in lacked a vital phrase -"Go up the ramp" but we eventually made our way in.
Dinner that night was at Gourley St with a belated (second) birthday cake for Alex.
Adding to the occasion was Jordan and Millie's flatmate Emily.
Next morning we had the use of Jill's car and went into town. I bought a few things for summer, but these days we don't need to buy any thing very dressy. We met Jill at Joe's Garage for morning tea/early lunch.
That night we were off to the Press Club for a posh meal - and to help the hospitality industry - there weren't many people out and about, so we spent up large courtesy of the funding of the occasion by Heather. Millie and Jill sampled a few cocktails.
Then we went to the medical school where Jill has one of her offices. The other one is more on the main campus. I think she is waiting to see how the university gets on with student numbers after COVID.
We think that Jill got the pick of the desserts!
Our waiter was an Italian called Bruno. Waiters in Italy think of it as a vocation, and he was certainly excellent at his job, as well as being very entertaining.
Because no-one down there is a non drinker now we got the bus home - fortunately the bus stop was right outside the restaurant, and the stop right at the end of Gourley street one way and the St where our air BNB was.
Next day we headed off to Kaka Point.
Sadly at that stage not a lot more had been done, but a tank was in, and a daffodil was flourishing! So we signed in with the QR code
We went for a walk along the beach, around the back of the pub and then went to NEUX, the cafe there for lunch.
The cafe is built in the old school there which we were able to wander through - lots of memories and fortunately adult height toilets in the Girls and Boys.
The French Toast was exceptional as it was made with brioche, not bread; and Duncan enjoyed his poke bowl. Heather had the seafood chowder - but it did not rate as highly as our dishes.
Time for a nap before dinner at the air BNB which had some curios features which included this large painting, and the elephant in the loo. I did a tapas theme for dinner.
Sunday was our last day there and we went to Starfish for lunch. We've all been there many times before. By now you can imagine we are absolutely stuffed with food, and ready for a light tea as we packed up ready for our early start in the morning.
A great winter getaway.
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