New Zealand wine region

New Zealand wine region
Originally uploaded by Carrie & Eddie.

We touched down in New Zealand a four hour flight and 25 hours later than we left Rarotonga - the international date line still totally throws me. Eddie's friend Phil met us at the airport and we went back to their flat, then out for dinner in the evening, and after that very brief introduction to Auckland, flew to Christchurch the following morning. We were heading straight up to Kaikoura so left Christchurch straight from the airport, and stopped in the Waipara wine region on the way up, where we stumbled across a wine festival - food, wine, music, glorious sunshine... I was definitely the only person there who didn't actually try any wine at the wine festival, which became quite embarrassing - not the done thing, apparently! But the food was fantastic and we had a lovely afternoon, chilling out and sunbathing, before heading up to Kaikoura to meet Alex and Zoe.