It’s raining on our penultimate day in New Zealand. After waking up on a soggy campsite in Takapuna Beach in the North Shore City area of Auckland, we both decided that we’d had enough of the nomadic way of life and checked into a nearby apartment (though parking was again a problem as we had to remove part of a tree that got caught in the campervan skylight). Hopefully that means a comfortable night’s sleep before the horrors of the return flight to London.
The bad weather held off for the start of the wedding of Simon and Catherine but the reception was very much a indoors affair. But this did not detract from the occasion with its good food and drink and the inevitable dodgy dancing (from me anyway). I left the wedding well educated on New Zealand farming and animal husbandry in particular. Special thanks go to Tom for the detailed and vivid explanation of the procedure for the extraction of bull semen.
