February 26 - Wellington, New Zealand
Tom has been a bit under the weather with a sort of cough (NOT coronavirus!) and today he was feeling better, but now Jan is feeling meh. Hope it's a short duration thing. Anyway, they decided not to do their tour, but to hang around the ship and take it easy. They learned that they have been booked to fly home from Sydney on Sunday via Los Angeles. Ugly long flight, but at least they'll be in business class and will be able to sleep. Our tour was a drive through Wellington, right up around the Wellington Harbour and down to the point on the other side where we had tea at Pencarrow sheep and cattle station and watched a short sheep herding exhibition. It was a long drive, but the driver was a hoot. He made no apologies for being politically incorrect and shared his opinions on lots of things here. We also learned more than we needed to about his ne'er-do-well son, who has turned it around supposedly, and his daughter who has terrible taste in ...