Day 23 Lockdown. Diary 17th April – Depart Nice for Rome. It seems very strange that it is literally only 6 weeks ago that we decided that maybe we would put our trip off and go in September/October instead. Irritatingly our Rome hotel has still not given us our money back and is incommunicado. It feels such a gigantic step to even think about when we will venture out into the big wide world again, when we don’t even know when we can drive to visit the grandkids. Certainly my optimism of going in September was misplaced. The world is still a scary place and there is no place like home.
Anyway that’s enough Jibber Jabba as I am excited to share some stuff from people far more clever and entertaining than I. The Tuturiwhatu below is brilliant in its detail. Its called Tuturiwhatu Pukunui (Pukunui means greedy) It was really hard to do it justice through my lens as its so large and the surrounding buildings mean its hard to step back far enough. The Monarch its chasing is beautiful so next time you are in the area check it out. The colours are much brighter than this but I don’t want to keep everything as is and not use any filters so just enjoy.
