Being back home from the Wairarapa has been quite a shock. The sun just doesn’t shine as hard on this side of the Rimutakas so back in windy Wellington it would have been easy to hunker down and not make the most of our remaining holiday. Fear not, we’re... The Rose GardensThe Slackers route up the hill! The kiwi Christmas Tree Views across the city from the gardens Part of my dreaming over recent years has been a hankering to grow vines and olives – very cliche I know but there you have it. Before coming to New Zealand I was very excited about the prospect for doing this as one of the finest wine growing regions (the... View from our room porch doorViews across the vineyards to the mountains beyond Olives basking in the clouds! It’s fair to say that New Zealand, and in particular, Wellington has not been enjoying good summer weather. The new year started with southerly winds which turned into gales but hey it’s good to know that it’s living up to it’s namesake of... 