Wine, food and music - Toast Martinborough!

On Sunday 21st November, we jumped aboard a big green bus at 8am (on a Sunday!!) to drive over the hills to the Toast Martinborough Wine, Food and Music Festival!

We paid our entry fee and were given a wine glass attached to a string so we could hang it round our neck (to prevent loss or spillage!). We then strolled from vineyard to vineyard in the sunshine, tasting lots of wine, eating beautiful food and listening to some quality live bands.

Jen's work colleague Fiona, and her husband Simon (a fellow Pom) came along too and we had a cracking day chillin' in the sun and getting nice and merry on some delicious vintages of Sauv Blanc, Merlot, Shiraz and Chardonnay.

There is a shuttle bus round the vineyards for when you're too tired/pissed to walk, so we had a few rousing verses of 'The Wheels on the Bus' etc with a bus full of merry folk!

On the bus on the way back to Wellington, we met a very amusing couple of blokes from Upper Hutt Wine Club, who were flaunting the no-drinking-on-the-bus-home rules and slipping us surreptitious swigs of vino, and cheese and biscuits - very civilised!

Not wanting the day to end (especially as it was a school night!), we had a slow walk back along the harbour and stopped for an Italian on the way home. A great day was had by all!!


Vineyards of Martinborough