Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Martinborough Road Trip ...

I'm a little bit in love with Picasa !  Do you use it?  So much fun for organising photos and creating collages and more and the perfect tool to make a photo summary of the weekend that was and my road trip to Wairarapa for the Martinborough Fair.


As you may have heard, the fair had to be cancelled (the 1st time in 35 years), due to the 'weather bomb' that ripped through New Zealand.

Putting aside the disappointment of missing out on this iconic event, my mum and I had a ball travelling down the day before and visiting galleries, a paua factory, driving through the beautiful countryside and walking around Martinborough which is a seriously cool boutiquey township.

We also had THE best bed and breakfast experience you can imagine with primo purpose built accommodation with other stallies staying too, and just the most lovely hostess you can imagine - she even found me gluten free muesli, how nice is that?!  It may have been pouring with rain and blowing gale force winds - but perked coffee, a warm open fire, fresh fruit and homemade jam seriously takes the edge off :D.

I'm really glad we went and I'm up for another trip as soon as the postponement date is finalised.

Now back to Picasa - I feel a new collage coming on!!



7 comments:

  1. It's a shame the fair was cancelled, but it sounds like you had a fun time anyway :) Hmm; have to checkout Picasa ...

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    1. Oh yes Julie, I'm thinking it might well be one of those 'must have' tools for bloggers, Facebookers, Tweeters.... :D

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  2. So glad you had a lovely time, thanks for sharing! cool photos. :)

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  3. Hi Mel, what a cool time you had, I was thinking about how disappointed you would have been, but it appears this was tempered with FUN, cheers Marie

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    1. It really was Marie! I was disappointed to miss out on the extra income and the experience of such a huge event in general - but we had such fun with planned and unplanned stops along the way, and a bit of a 'hairy' drive home :D

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  4. Hi Mel, so glad you had fun despite all, and I am really impressed with the photo collage. I will definitely take a look:) You will know where to stay for the next trip too!

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    1. Thank you Jane - I will definately be staying there again, such nice people they even bake muffins/scones and take them to the stallholders who are staying at their bed and breakfast for morning tea!!

      Your work would look beautiful in a photo collage :D

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