Oamaru to Wellington

Can't remember if I uploaded the Bruce ride map?
Anyway, the blue dashes are where we went.
Given the problem blogger now seems to have with ampusands, I shal try AND remember not to do them

Re the trip, I was up early to check, fill up and head off north. As is normal on NZ roads, there wasn't much traffic out of town, and apart from some early morning sea mist, the drive up to Timaru was uneventful. I stopped off somewhere at a tourist gift shop place, and noted it was run by the ubiquitous Asian types from a country N of India ;-p. Well they're everywhere in the UK too. North of  Timaru te road left the coast and went through the flat farm land around Ashburton. Back to v long straight roads again.
Eventually I crossed the Rakaia again - the 1 where I'd stopped to take pics on the way to Methven and before long I was in the Christchurch suburbs looking for somewhere to fill up before giving the car back
Everything went swimmingly at Jucy and I was taken to the airport in plenty of time to grab a coffe and a goody, and check out the crossword in the paper someone had left on the table.
Aboard the plane I got to see the funny safety film again :-)) and then stared out of the window wishing I had more food!
As it was an internal, getting through to bag reclaim and out to arrivals was whizzy quick, and Liz was awaiting me across the barrier. As it was still morning we had a bit of a jolly between airport and her house, and I explained I'd like to see Faye before I headed north. Liz drove me past her house, but there was no-one there, so I knocked on next door and the chap confirmed Faye was still there, so that was great :-)
Next stop was somewhere that sold flowers so I could buy a nice big bunch to take to Faye the following day. The lady made a lovely bunch up. Thank you, Lady ;-)
As this blog is being written in July 12, I can't remember all of what happened in Wellington, but I know Liz lent me her car and I went to Faye's the next morning.

Oh what a surprise - all the PC's here just crashed and it took about 1/4 hr for them to come on again.
Computers do my head in, I can't even get blogger to change the font from this gopping courier, so as a lovely sunny day is going to waste outside, I'm off.
Ta ta
OandO