The following day we drove up the east coast to Napier to visit the wineries that are all over the area. Our tour guide/taxi picked us up at our hostel and drove us around for the next 4 hours or so. We stopped at probably 6 places and enjoyed a nice mix of wines, even bought a few bottles. Neither know much about wine other than how to drink it, so we might have gotten a look or two for being unrefined but in all honesty does anyone really know how “shape” their favorite wine is? FYI – we used Grape Escape as our tour guide – we don’t recommend it, should’ve know by the name. After wine we got a surprise visit, Dan’s cousin Shannon and her husband Doug had come down to Napier to celebrate their 1 year anniversary, so we all went out to dinner together. Not sure if we’re just too fast/logical being from the Northeast, but to get a table was such a big ordeal. Hostess basically said there were no tables, we then had to ask the next logical question if they were taking names or if it meant they weren’t seating anymore. It came down to us taking a table from a couple with a baby. Sorry. The next day we went shopping and found something Joanne has searched for high and low, a scratch map, we also bought some things to prepare for the final part of our trip. After shopping we headed to beach and then to a scenic outlook on top of a smaller mountain. The views of rolling hills, rivers and the South Pacific were pretty remarkable. That night we decided to go to a Turkish restaurant (In your honor Sule) and have a nice meal with our bottle of wine that we got from one of the wineries we visited, unfortunately the place had run out of falafel and bread so there was nothing on the menu for Joanne to eat. At 8:30 everything in the town was closed, we walked the streets until we stumbled upon Joanne’s Mecca, Pizza Hut. We got 2 pies, garlic bread and French fries (it was a deal) and sat there eating them while drinking our nice wine out of a paper bag, super classy J
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