We decided to treat ourselves with a wine tour. The weather is still stormy, but no snow this low, sun breaks, with high winds and big fast moving storm clouds that dump every few hours, so what would be better than trying the local wines! We did our laundry, secured the tour, and cleaned our van, while we waited for Ian our tour guide.
Ian was very nice, he took around the town as well and shared a lot of history about Napier. We picked up two older couples, one from Northern Ireland, the other from Scotland. We all agreed it was nice we all spoke English, but laughed when we realized all of our English is very different!
We visited 4 vineyards, and had 6-8 tastes at each vineyard. At the first place I tried Dukkard, a dry middle eastern dip. You dip your bread in olive oil then in the dry dip. This was so good! It is very popular here and in Australia. The kiwi's thought it was funny that i have never heard of it since it's from the northern hemisphere. At the same vineyard we met another Australian couple that came right over to us and said " Are you the yanks?" He shook our hands and said "I'm on your side mate!" Not fully understanding what side he meant we gladly accepted our new comrades! This couple was not on our tour but talked our ear off. We have another invitation to look them up in South Australia for a place to stay! I think we are some sort of Aussie magnet. We love it. However, our kiwi amigo Ian was not impressed with the Aussies. While he lead us to the van, he said he should not have let us talk to the Aussies. There is a definite rivalry between the two countries. Similar to us and Canada, except it is a fact we are better than the Canadian's. A maple leaf… are you kidding me!
After six and half ours of wine, we became great mates with our fellow wine lovers. Ian dropped off the other couples and took Paul and I on a short tour of the town to explore further on our own. He also asked about Sarah Palin. Good thing for us he thinks about as much of her as we do, not much. Feeling giggly we made dinner and are going to burn some movies from our Sheffield friends! Cheers!
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