Mission Winery Lunch
We did some wine tasting late this morning and bought a bottle of champagne to toast Hans' continued downward trend in golf. His scores have been: 95, 93, 90, 87, 84, 81 and 79 this morning! Tell everyone!!
Then off to a fabulous lunch at the spectaclar Mission Winery. We tasted wines first in order to decide what to have with lunch, and the Riesling was a unanimous favourite.
We shared a bowl of crayfish bisque after which I had snapper with a fresh herb and nut crust while Hans ate veal saltimbacco. We ate al fresco with crisp white linen napkins on pretty granite tables overlooking the vinyard far below us. It was perfect, until the mist rolled in and then the rain. Luckily, lunch was over by then.
We were planning to do the Art Deco walk this afternoon as Napier was rebuilt in the Art Deco style following their devastating earthquake in 1931. 250 people were killed, but the quake had a good side. It lifted the sea bottome 8' and created a new area on which to build, which is where the present city of Napier stands. If the rain lets up long enough this afternoon, we'll do the walk on our own. This has been the first rain to catch us when we're not in the car, so we're certainly not complaining.
Temperatures have been in the low to mid 20's and the nights are crisply cool.
Then off to a fabulous lunch at the spectaclar Mission Winery. We tasted wines first in order to decide what to have with lunch, and the Riesling was a unanimous favourite.
We shared a bowl of crayfish bisque after which I had snapper with a fresh herb and nut crust while Hans ate veal saltimbacco. We ate al fresco with crisp white linen napkins on pretty granite tables overlooking the vinyard far below us. It was perfect, until the mist rolled in and then the rain. Luckily, lunch was over by then.
We were planning to do the Art Deco walk this afternoon as Napier was rebuilt in the Art Deco style following their devastating earthquake in 1931. 250 people were killed, but the quake had a good side. It lifted the sea bottome 8' and created a new area on which to build, which is where the present city of Napier stands. If the rain lets up long enough this afternoon, we'll do the walk on our own. This has been the first rain to catch us when we're not in the car, so we're certainly not complaining.
Temperatures have been in the low to mid 20's and the nights are crisply cool.
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