NICKY PELLEGRINO for SCOUT MAGAZINE11:12, Jul 22 2021
This story first appeared in SCOUT Travel magazine and is republished with permission.
She’s better recognised for her tasty novels set in Italy, but bestselling author Nicky Pellegrino finds plenty to write home about the east of our own Main Divide. The last time I was in North Canterbury was on a horse trek that involved long days in the saddle riding across steep terrain. Very often I was sore and scared, but even so, on the final day, when leaving the mountains behind, a sort of sadness seemed to settle over me. I am the least ooky-spooky person you could ever hope to meet, but for a moment it almost felt as if the High Country was trying to tug me back again.
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Shoppers in Wales have been left outraged after supermarkets cordoned off non-essential items days before Christmas under the country s shock Covid crackdown.
Pictures today emerged of Sainsbury s in Pontypridd which blocked off non-essential sections of the store using large red barricades.
Sainsbury s say the items - including clothing and Christmas decorations - are blocked off in line with the Welsh government’s guidance .
From midnight last night, Wales was thrust into a full lockdown - forcing all non-essential shops to close their doors and slashing Christmas bubbles to a single day.
Many questioned whether the non-essential shopping rules would bring the same chaos as the country s 17-day firebreak lockdown in October.