We arrived in Auckland early – around 0700 – again to miss the ferry traffic. The weather was beautiful but we had to be off the ship by 0840 to find the dentist for my 0910 appointment. An hour in the chair, lots of drilling and probing, I came away $300 lighter – about £150! I will have to see my own dentist after 14 April because the filling is only temporary. All the work was just to insert antibiotic dressings into the roots!!
Not coming out of the dentists until 1030 we had time for a coffee and a quick lunch on the waterfront before going back to the ship for a visit to three wineries! The first winery was Soljans, a winery that unfortunately doesn’t export to the UK but the wines, port and champagne were excellent. In fact we bought a bottle of champagne to share with the other couple on our table who were married in the same year and the same date as us!
The next winery was Nobilo, with a larger number of tastings! After that it was Coopers Creek where he had lined up around 15 wines that we could taste. We gave up after a couple of tastings at the last winery because after you have tasted around half a dozen, then apart from the colour, the individual taste etc is very difficult to discern. Very enjoyable though and a very happy coach load of passengers embarked Aurora to sail for Apia, Western Samoa!
Just had the 12 noon briefing on and it seems we are set for a few more rough seas. The ship is pitching about at the moment, but the sun is trying to shine through and the majority of us are used to the movement now.
You may remember in one of my previous posts I told you about going to bed on a Monday night and waking up the next day and it was Wednesday? Well, we’ve gone the other way now, and we have two Saturdays, 12 March!
The ports are going down very quickly now and we have under five weeks left before we return to Southampton!
Will post another blog after Apia.
P.S. Is this blog still on a white background? All I can see on my laptop is blue which makes it very difficult to read.
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