Catching Up

Mum and Dad have been here the last two weeks so there has been lots of stuff going on but no time to write about it. Opera in a private garden...

the annual street fair...

and a visit to Napier that along with catching up with family included street art and the famous Rush Munro's ice cream

Weird Food!

Among my many favourite things 'weird' food is very high on the list.  Today I made it to one of the places I had been told about that makes Petone a bit of a foodie heaven.

The upshot of enormous restraint was this; Gorgonzola, black sesame crackers, baklava and one happy camper.

I haven't taken any cloud shots for a while but this morning this was the view from the end of my street looking south, out through the heads.

New treats

For a very long time now I've had a Saturday morning routine.  Get up, put on the week's laundry, walk to the local shop, get the paper and a little something for breakfast, back home to make a 'proper' coffee.  By the time I've had breakfast and read the interesting bits of the paper the washing is ready to hang out.  As I've moved around the only real variable has been the little something.  Donut holes, pastry, muffin.  I've now added a new word to my vocab as well as a new treat.  Meet the Schneckennudel.

 In other places it's known as a pain aux raisin, escargot or a scroll but mine comes from a fabulous German bakery just up the street.

Relaxing

The weather has been up and down, as it is in Wellington, but today has been fine and hot and we have been relaxing.

Celebrating Small

As with Christmas my New Year was even more low key than usual.  New Year's day was hot and sunny and the perfect opportunity to try out a new brew.

Yup, lime and chilli ginger beer.  Found in Moore Wilsons, weird food heaven centrally located in Wellington, luckily not too close to home.

Feeling Festive

So far the build up to Christmas has been rather low key but it got a bit of a boost on the bus one morning this week.

To top it off the driver was wearing a Santa hat too, nice.