A more relaxed day

We caught a bus to St John’s to visit an America’s Cup volunteer friend of ours, about a half hour’s walk away from where we used to live in St Heliers.  It was great to see her and catch up on all her news.  We had coffee and a light bite at a wonderful bakery just up the road from her place - an almond croissant, a ham and cheese baguette and a cruffin (a cross between a croissant and a muffin).  After she’d shown us the renovations she’s been doing we caught a bus to Kohimarama, where we popped a card into the letterbox of another America’s Cup volunteer friend, just in case we don’t manage to see her over the next couple of days, then hopped on the next bus into the city.  We stopped at the Maritime Museum café for another coffee and a light savoury bite, then walked to the hotel and relaxed for a few hours.  We met another America’s Cup volunteer friend near the hotel just after 6pm and sat outside the Park Hyatt’s casual restaurant, as it wasn’t busy and there was a light breeze blowing.  She sat downwind of us, as she is Covid positive at the moment.  It was lovely to see her, we had a good chat and she was very pleased when we gave her some Whitestone cheese, as she is very much a cheese and wine person.  Afterwards we walked her to the bus stop then walked back to our hotel and had a reasonably early night.


The collage is of a rather unusual, but beautifully decorated, public toilet building at the end of the street our hotel is on.