Starting today with cornflakes and coffee. Epic 6 player motor racing (1961 style) board game with Rob and his Uni friends about to end. Looks as if we will play it all again! The Mazda's responsive cruise control makes life very easy and the Ks roll by with very few slow moving vehicles on the way. Plenty of passing safe spots to get by. The car also has a heads up display of navigation projected on the windscreen. We did not have the instructions on how to adjust it until now! The driver before must have been very tall or did not know it was there. The scenery is wonderful with the Sunshine bringing out the colours of the amazing trees and bushes we pass. Farms are also very interesting and sometimes the view opens up over fields to the horizon. We take a couple of quick stops for a drink and a pie along the way, but basically we arrive after four and a half hours. We did go a long way upwards on the way and found an enormous wind farm at the top.

Hanging a left off the Expressway we arrive at the Bolton Hotel Wellington within minutes and we are on the fifteenth floor. The hotel have given us a one way ticket on the iconic and must-do cable car. We go straight away. The ride is not long but the walk down is amazing. It starts descending through a botanic garden, although we only see a small part of it. The plants here are wonderful and some of the trees are indescribably magnificent.

Edging carefully down the chosen path that takes us straight back to the hotel, through an amazing cemetery that is on the steep slope. Grave stones and memorials are higgledy-piggledy scattered up and down, in and around the trees and slightly untended bushes. They are mainly victorian, and the ironwork of some is rusted almost to nothing. Our path is blocked by a huge new wall. We find the steps up leading to a bridge across the motorway we drove in along. Our hotel is just on the other side and as we approach it we notice graves on this side of the bridge. We both commented that it looks as if the motorway was driven right through the graveyard. We were right. Search Wikipedia for 'Bolton Street Memorial Park' for the interesting story.

Everybody knows you can not have too many sat-navs. I am lucky, I have three. The incrediably hard to use Mazda, the superb TomTom with all our stops and destinations set in memory and number three, Liz. Driving is interesting as some times they all agree, while sometimes... I use a map.

Perfect Sunset tonight, Venus shining and the Waxing Moon trying to embrace it. Tomorrow we will explore the ancient temple ruins, unfold the mysteries and save the world from the wrath of the Death Gods! (It is a Mayan themed escape room).