Holiday

I thought it was high-time I got back into the blogging groove. I haven’t posted much lately, but I have been busy researching. I’ll share some of that another day, but for now – photos of our holiday in beautiful Napier. Napier is a small city on New Zealand’s East Coast of the North Island – it’s about two hours drive from here.

We were only there for three nights. Just long enough to have a quick look around…

We had a lovely motel on Napier’s glorious Marine Parade… we started each day with a sleep-in and a perfectly Paleo/Low Carb home-cooked (by me) breakfast of whitebait fritters… little tiny baby fishes and egg…

sitting on the balcony, in the sun, looking at this…

Then – before it got too hot… we went sight-seeing. To the lookout on the top of the hill you can see from this photo (taken from the other balcony at our motel)

On the other side of the hill is the port of Napier, and the view from up there is magnificent…

We drove to a different vineyard for lunch each day, and wandered along Marine Parade to different restaurants for dinner each night. A lot of food was eaten – surprisingly it was really easy to stick to the diet, and everyone knew about gluten and there were delicious choices everywhere.

Lots of wine was drunk.

It was a lovely – if short – break away. A change of scene is always good.

We got home to a little cat who it appears was bullied by the bigger boy and the little girl. Yoshi was absolutely delighted to see us home. He has a habit of bringing gifts. Leaves usually – yellow ones. He carries them down the driveway – calling his hunting cry (more of a yowl). He brought us leaf after leaf after leaf. We were a bit worried for his sanity at one stage, but he has settled down a little and is just bringing a couple a day now.

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