We went to the Martinborough fair on Saturday morning. It is huge. I don't think we appreciated how big it was when we were told it was big. The square in the centre of Martinborough was full of stalls plus 8 streets off the square. There were so many people with their dogs. We do wonder why people take dogs to a thing like that. It seems ridiculous to us. We saw one lady with 3. I think it must be quite distressing for the dog, with lots of smells, heat and legs in their faces all day.
Parking was a premium of course, so we stopped at the first space we came too and walked into town-- about 2 ks I think. We wandered around for a while until we found some chicken nuggets and chips for an early lunch. Eddie was over all the people by then, so we came home. We got a bit lost going back to the truck and ended up a long way from where we wanted to be. Eddie got out his phone and put the GPS on to find out where we were. We were very pleased to get into the truck and stop walking. I had done a 7k before breakfast that morning, so I had done almost 15 ks by the end of the day. I thought I might be a bit stiff the next day, but I wasn't, so that was a bonus.
We had a fish and chip tea after all that effort. It is the first time we have had fish and chips since we have been here. It wasn't that exciting, but better than the nuggets we had for lunch.
It was very stormy on Monday and the Remutaka road was closed for a time. It can be very windy up there on a normal day, so it must have been really bad to close the road. It is the main way over to Wellington. The alternative route is back to Woodville and over the Woodville track or the Pahiatua track. That adds quite a few hours to the journey, so you would have to be really wanting to be in Wellington to do that.
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