After Duncan had refereed a game of golf, we set off on Saturday 23rd September to the Nutcrackers in Auckland. We had packed the car up on the friday.
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| We wont be able to get them all in the car next year! |
We had to stay the night in Opotiki, but at least it was a start to our trip, and we managed to get the Nuts up to the Cracker, Whynut? out at Bethels beach by about 2.30 in the afternoon. Sue and John were greatly relieved that they had 3 of the 4 WOOFERS (Workers On Organic Farms) from the previous year. We are anticipating that the nuts won't be quite as good as last year
We then headed back to the Heartland, where you can park your car for $8 a day, so long as you stay a night at each end of your trip, and had dinner in the restaurant. We wanted to be away by 6.30am in the morning. The airport was reasonably chaotic.
Jam-packed plane to Melbourne, and we got the bus from the airport to the city centre, then an uber to the Air BnB that Simon had organised. It was once a pretty, traditional inner city apartment, but I suspect the owner is just waiting for a good offer for some inner city development.
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| The view from our window indicating what the neighbouring buildings are like. |
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| Our doorway is on the left. |
There is an upstairs lounge, as well as two bedrooms and the kids were very kind to give up their beds and sleep on a folding out couch.
Melbourne seems to be a city of skyscrapers.
On the way in from the airport we saw a lot of construction. Or this may be an art work?
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