Despite the delay caused by the others, we made good time out of the city, & decided we would go to the hot pools at Miranda to relax after our somewhat stressful weekend! But we weren't impressed with the look of the one pool available, & it cost $12 plus towel hire so we gave it a miss & drove on to Thames. We were too early to go to the homestay, so we had a very interesting look around the very small museum. You know you're getting old when you recognise the packets in the old grocery store! The lady running the museum stayed open later than published just for us, this is the kind of thing which makes NZ such a great country, so different from the UK, where I don't think that would happen.
The homestay was lovely, it's called Cotswold Cottage, it's upon a small knoll on the approach to Thames, near the airport. After being given afternoon tea & chatting with the owners, who are English (though the lady was born in Wellington),we relaxed in the hot tub, bliss! Such a contrast to our accommodation in Auckland! We had an evening meal here too, which was very good & reasonable.
I recommend the Goldmine experience in Thames, which we went to the next day. It was very good value for 410, appeared to be run by a young girl (the guide) and an older chap who may have been a relation who kept the machines running. The stamper battery was incredibly loud, it must have been absolutely deafening when over a 100 were going in Gold Rush era of the 1860s.
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