For the past two days (well we left 2 nights ago, but have been busy) we have been in Wellington staying in the lovely home of our new friends – Margaret and Dave and the real head of the household – Tigger!
Tigger and company were introduced to us through another new friend of ours from our travels, Caroline, who we met in Poland. Caroline is the neighbor of our hostess in Poland, Maria. And remember Maria is our friend Carissa’s cousin – Phew!! It was so nice of them to host us and we enjoyed our time there.
But Margaret summed it up really well on our last night, when I was thanking her for their wonderful hospitality (and good cooking – Michael especially liking the homemade lamb sausage). Margaret is exceptionally well traveled and had in her travels also experience very generous hospitality and being that it is difficult to return that hospitality to the same person – you instead pass it on to someone new….as we hope to do down the road in our life.
We met up with Jay and Carla yesterday and plan to go whale watching tomorrow.
I love the pay it forward mentality or Europeans and Australians. very refreshing. Heidi
Margaret sounds like a lovely person. You have been very fortunate to have met and stayed with so many generous people during this trip.