Eureka is a place name here in New Zealand, to be exact in the Waikato District; locality, 18km east of Hamilton.

We were on our third trip from Auckland to Taupo, when we ended up in Eureka. (Unfortunately I did not really remember the exact meaning of ‘Eureka’.)

Driving through the place and carrying on driving it dawned on us that we have never been driving through that place on our way to Taupo.

Turning back and asking for directions put us eventually on the right track to Taupo, only this time we did not have to drive through Cambridge because of road improvements. We missed stopping at our famous coffee shop in Cambridge.

The coffee shop I like in Cambridge used to be a church

Looking up Eureka in The Collins Concise Dictionary I am finding that it is “an exclamation of triumph on discovering or solving something.”

Eureka means also, “I have found it.” But we lost our way at the place called Eureka.