After this long hiatus...and two children married...we've just enjoyed the best brekkie -- translation: breakfast-- ever...at the Corner Cafe on Main Street in Greytown, New Zealand, in the magnificent broad Wairarapa Valley. We're here for a wedding at which we're officiating.
After a 64 hour trip from London (including one cancelled flight and an unexpected mini-sleepover in Auckland)...and 8 hours of sleep...off to the local cafe which opens at 6:00 am.Eggs and toast has never tasted so delicious! Scrumptious homemade bread, made "from scratch" by a "lady out back," light and airy crisp toast. Scrambled eggs that are firm and yellow...quite different from the British variety that tends to be white and runny. Bacon cooked on a griddle, tastes like "the pig lives/ed in the garden, so fresh!
Mr. Patel, Shahzin, the proprietor for about 18 months, greets all with a broad smile.
Ceiling fans twirl, though the sun has not yet risen above the trees. The day is set to reach 32C like the day before.
Breakfast is so delicious, we bring the whole family back at 10:00 for brunch. Nigel's French toast with bacon, banana and maple syrup is a work of art with an aroma to die for. The triple decker delight is formidable, but Nigel manages to enjoy it to the last bite.
The Greytown Corner Cafe proves to be a great way to kick off our visit to New Zealand.
Our visit's highlight is the Hewison & King wedding in an olive grove on the Hewison family farm in Carterton.
We enjoyed a town art fair and attended church at St Andrew's Union Church in Greytown.
The bride and groom joined everyone to a visit to Aotearoa Stonehenge, a stone circle constructed by a local resident astronomer connected to the Carterton Observatory in Wellington and the Phoenix Astronomy Society - fascinating time piece (not a replica) on the scale of the Stonehenge of Salisbury Plain, near our UK home. http://www.awapress.com/products/published/books/newzealand/geaotearoathecompleteguide
The sunsets spread dramatic displays across the heavens each evening -- a magical time!