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Labour Day dawned chilly, windy and cloudy. We continued visiting artists’ studios on the Kapiti Coast Arts Trail after calling in to Ben’s Buns to buy bread, croissants and pies for dinner. The trail took us out to the Nikau Valley: One of our best visits of the weekend was to The Art Barn where we saw the work of Roly Hermans; highly detailed paintings of ships, planes and trains. They were very good and selling like hot cakes. By lunchtime we had visited 29 studios in total over the weekend and were all cultured out. The weather improved with some sunny spells but we didn’t amble on the beach for very long because of the strong wind. We started on the jigsaw that we had taken with us and throughly enjoyed our pies for dinner. A very windy night was followed by a stormy morning so we had had a very slow start to our last full day in Raumati. When the weather started to improve, we drove to a furniture shop in search of a dining table and chairs. We had found one that we liked at...