We're heading into winter, so when I saw the forecast for this morning was for a mild day heading up to 18c, I threw the camera in the boot and the wife in the co-pilot's seat, and we enjoyed an hour and a half's drive over some twisty bits to Akaroa. French settlers arrived here in 1840, only just beaten by the British who signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the Maoris and pretty much sealed the failure of the French settlement plans.
