First weekend

On Friday we went to look at cars. The first car we saw was a Ford Territory in a local garage. It was very nice but also very expensive! We took it for a test drive and we both really liked it. The next car we saw was a Honda CRV Sport, also at a local garage. It was also very nice but older than the Territory.

On Saturday we drove to Whangerai to look at cars. We didn’t really find anything and we really want to buy locally but we are very confused about what sort of car we want. We don’t really know where we might live or what we might need from a car. Also, it was SO hot that we couldn’t actually look for very long. The burn time is about 6 minutes and that’s for locals!

Today (Sunday) we went to view a couple of houses that had an open home days.

House 1

House 2

Neither were suitable for us but we thought we’d look as they were open home.

The first one had a vineyard and the second grew olives and lychees. Apparently the first in NZ! Neither of us are particularly green fingered so they’d probably all die within a week!

We then visited the local farmer’s market which was great as we found vegetarian cheese!

It was like a proper old fashioned market with local produce and art – very nice.

We’ve found that weekends are not for shopping in Kerikeri. Nothing is open for long at weekends. Most people seem to have better things to do than work or shop which is actually quite nice.  As you drive along there are lots of boats being towed so we think everyone goes to the coast at weekends.

Tomorrow we need to start working. We’ve both been preparing and are hopefully ready. It still feels like we are on holiday so working will be strange.