Stranded on the Makarori Hill, New Zealand

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One thing you don't want to happen is your car refuse to start on the top of a hill in the middle of a scorching hot summer when you are on holiday. Sure, we had a magnificent view as shown here, but we also had limited water and no shade. We were less than twenty kilometres from town when we were stranded here in 33C temperature for more than two hours. A local man kindly tried to start us, then when that didn't work we rang our roadside rescue service. We weren't the only ones in distress that day and so had to wait a while. Eventually, when he couldn't help us, he called a tow truck and so another wait until that arrived. The car problem wasn't easily solved and meant we stayed in Gisborne a day longer than intended. However, the garage did lend us a courtesy car to get around in, so our holiday wasn't totally ruined. We just had less money to spend