Mar 1 Dunedin
It rained hard most of the night, so everything was waterlogged in the morning. Leaving Charlie in bed, Pete & I drove to the market and joined the crowds. I stocked up with enough Evansdale cheese to last for a month and bought a sausage in the bun from the Eurodog van.
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There were large puddles in the marketplace but lots of fruit & vegetables to buy and to photograph. Even in such unpleasant weather, the market was busy and it seems to be a social gathering place as much as a place to shop. The return home took us via the whisky shop, which probably has the best stocks in the country. I made some enquiries and was told that malt whisky prices were about to rise by 40%. Lucky I don’t drink it.
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Once home, I did a little work and settled down for a quiet lunch and an early afternoon dodging the gathering gloom outside. The Regent Theatre was hosting a sale of records, CDs, tapes, sheet music etc etc, which we decided would make good wet weather entertainment. I acquired a couple of cassettes for the princely sum of $1, both of which seem to be in good working order. On the way home we stopped off at the whisky shop again and I bought a couple of bottles for a friend in Wellington. With the rain not easing at all, we stayed at home until going out to an Italian restaurant for dinner.
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