Next day we went wine touring in Blenheim. It was a fantastic trip. We started at 10 and got to try about 6 different wines in each of the 7 wineries we visited. We got collected and dropped off at our hotel. The smaller wineries were a lot more interesting than the larger ones but there were a few people who requested wineries on the tour and they all seemed to be quite big ones. We seemed to like the Riesling, Gerwurztrominer (I've never heard of it in Ireland) and Pinot Gris. There was a lot of not nice Riesling though. But when they were nice, they were fantastic. They seem to be what desert wines are made of but that doesn't mean they are always sweet. I got a bottle of that in the second last place we went to and Brian got a bottle of Gerwurztrominer. I would easily do a wine tour again a few times. It was a great way to spend time. We got food when we got back. Next day we got a really nice lunch for 11 dollars as two of the women we were with on the wine tour gave us a voucher they had but never got a chance to use on their trip to New Zealand. It was a 35 dollar voucher which was really nice. Then we went on an exhausting 5 hour trip down to Greymouth and then a further trip to Arthur's Pass. It was a long day so we just got dinner and went to the cinema to see True Grit. It was a pretty boring film where a few bits didn't even make sense.
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