Coromandel

We start with a word of warning to the would-be traveller, mind your credit card! A phone call from Natwest at 10-30pm last night, informs me that someone in the uk the night before has tried to use my credit card on line, from a uk computer, to buy goods from Zara.com. As I told them the dates of where I would be and WHEN they blocked the transaction knowing I was in New Zealand. They have also blocked the card completely and the bit the poor girl on the other end of the line, with a terrible sounding cold, couldn’t quite get into her head was that sending me out a new card was not going to be much use to me. “You will receive the new card within 5 to 7 working days.” I assume she thought I would be impressed. “Take as long as you like,” I said,”We’re not home till March 12th.” There was no response to this as obviously there was no pre-prepared answer to that one on her crib sheet! Anyway good to know they were checking, I guess and I did call them straight back to double check it had been Natwest in the first place.