What to do when your wasting a week in Wellington

Ah Kristov, with this fine Vodka you are really spoiling us

8.2 and not a percent less!

In a week and a bit's time, we're heading back home, but spending 5 days in China on the way. It wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that we realised we might need to apply for a visa to be allowed in for a Chinese takeaway in Beijing. So after a lot of research and lost in translation emails we went to the Chinese Embassy to apply for our visa, stopping in error on the way to knock on some Chinese man's house who greeted us in his slippers, but in the end turned out to be the Finance Minister. All our forms we completed, my occuption was listed as 'traveller' and we hoped for the best. But we had to wait 5 days to pick it up. So we had to hang around the Wellington area for that time, stopping off in various tiny towns on the way, the highlight being seeing the Greytown WI partaking in a mid week line dancing lesson in the village hall. Masterton was a gem. We walked around the town for a while, perusing all the $2 shops and admiring the 'Calven Klain' imports direct from our next destination no doubt. This led to a lot of hanging about, and what better to do when hanging about than have a good drink. Being a the end of the trip we are short on funds and so needed a drink that was a) cheap b) strong c) in large quantity. A trip down to New World supermarket and they did not dissapoint, in amongst the 'Grannypash' and 'Passion Pop' we found 'Scrumpy'. Like our cider at home, but 8.2%. Into the trolley she goes. After we had had our fill of cider we then thought we'd head for a spirit. The Antipodeans are very good at putting drink in boxes, and we found a 'Kristov' vodka and orange 3litre mix that hit the spot. By Friday we had our visas, and aching heads.