Toast!
Sometimes we have toast for breakfast (the motorhome comes with a toaster, which works if we're on a powered site) but usually it's muesli and coffee. But actually this post isn't about breakfast, it's about what turned out to be a major event in the North Island social calendar, and for which we happened to have tickets to: Toast Martinborough. Travelling south from Ohakune we passed through miles and miles of cattle and sheep farmland. Along the terraced valleys and up over a steep pass between the Ruahine and Tararua ranges, we took an overnight pitstop at Woodville (behind the Community Centre!) A town with 2 fish and chip shops and a petrol station, but not much else, it was a quiet night! In the morning we had a short drive to Martinborough which took us through some lovely small towns. Masterton, Carterton and Greytown are as close to chi-chi as you'll find in NZ, culminating in Martinborough a lovely town of clapperboard houses, cute cafes and cen...