Nelson: Day Ninety-Eight (25 January)

We drove through the centre of Blenheim on our way out today as we thought we hadn’t seen it properly and called at The Village again briefly before heading to Nelson, in the centre of New Zealand.

It’s a bit confusing because it’s nowhere near the centre of the South Island but if you put the two islands that make up New Zealand together, Nelson is where the centre would be. It was a reasonably sized town when Miss Robb’s Mummy was here about sixteen years ago; it’s now a city!

After we’d checked into our motel, we walked to the actual geographical centre. You know what I said about New Zealand hills being steep? This one was almost perpendicular! We even tried walking up it backwards to see if that was any easier. It wasn’t but when we got to the top the 360 degree view was amazing.

Barnaby