Just a quick note to let you all know that the journey has truly begun…right now, we are on the InterIslander ferry “Kaitaki” having just left Picton for the trip to Wellington. It’s an overcast day, quite warm though and the very nice man in the Kaitaki Lounge (the Koru Club of the high seas) has just advised that the northerly is turning to a southerly and that “it might be a bit lumpy out there today”….excellent news, just what I need (not!)

More exciting updates to come once we leave the country (at least I hope they’ll be exciting) but for now the news is simply that we have had all the sad farewells, we’ve had a lovely family dinner last night at Te Rito (Winsome’s home), we’ve even had crayfish for morning tea from one of those little caravans near Kaikoura. The Adventure before Dementia has started!!