Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Ice-cream in Martinborough
While Guy was snoozing in the back of the car we drove through the lovely hills east of Martinborough. It was almost ridiculoulsy green at this time of year, bright sun but not yet hot. We drove up to see the wind farm which was busy in the steady breeze over the ridge. There has been much talk here about the noise of the wind turbines that are planned for Makara. To test this out we drove past the public viewing area onto an access road until we were directly downwind of the turbines, about 200m from them. Even with the window open I couldn't hear them over the noise of the car idling so I turned it off. Then we could just hear the swishh-swishh-swishh, although it kept getting drowned out by the wind rustling though the grass on the roadside. Maybe they are more noisy overseas, where the wind itself is gentler and quieter?
Anyway Guy slept through all this and didn't stir until about an hour later as we were driving very slowly along a road that became a gravel surface. We soon arrived back in Martinborough and went about finding an Icecream shop. Guy rode his motorbike around but all we could find was lattes and wine for tasting. Guy did find a group of Harley riders suiting up outside a Cafe, he rode right in amongst their bikes on his little motorbike, looking at himself in the chrome mufflers and getting lots of smiles and thumbs up from the big bikers. Finally we found an indian dairy with a Tip Top sign and got a cone icecream each. Yep Guys' 1st whole icecream to himself. We took him back to town square and he sat on his motorbike solemnly eating his Icecream and watching the bikes go by. He didn't say a word or waver in his attention until he had finished. Then he said, 'more.. Daddy's cream" and gestured for me to hand over the remnants of mine!
# posted by Jack and Katrina @ 9:18 pm 
