The Great Coffey Road Trip: Day seven, Ashburton 

Right now I'm in the passenger seat, typing as we drive away from the small farming town of Ashburton.

What a turnout, it was the biggest yet. Instead of making Ashburton into something that it wasn't, we embraced the farming nature of the town - tractors, farmers, animals, sheep, calves, ploughs, gumboots, and there was the odd bit of sheep dung as well!

The McCafe Winnebago Cruiser was pretty visible from where we parked outside the clocktower - everybody knew we were in town.

The highlight of the morning was showing up at 6am and finding that there were four people already there to see us, and they'd been there for an hour.

Of course the people that get there early - always get on TV first - it's kind of my rule. We dished out more McCafe coffees than you could shake a stick at, and the people loved us for it. I really think that Paul and Pippa got into it today as well.

Ashburton's a great small town, yet despite being a small town it has got this amazing place to eat, called Lake Hood. Go there, and say "hi" to the Scottish waiter for me!

Akaroa here we come!

Tamati

You can check out where Tamati will be in week two of The Great Coffey Road Trip here