The Road Trip
Last Monday Robin and her friend Bizzie drove down from Nelson to Queenstown, this is an account of the days after they arrived….the names have been changed to protect the innocent…
The girls drove all night and slept in the car by the road side. They got to Queenstown around 9am and text’d me that they were having breaky. We agreed they would come and pick me up after they had eaten.
We shot off into town and went Luging! A little later we were laying out in the sun by the lake front. As I remember we went out later to get drunk but the girls were not happy with Qtown bars (Winnie Bagoes, World Bar and Altitude), although they did dance in Altitude for a bit.
They stayed at Southern Laughter while I went back up to the house.
Wednesday we took off to Te Anau and a boat trip at Milford Sound. I had been there before with bad weather but it was a mgnificent day and the trip was lovely. We drove back to Te Anau and stayed at the Barnyard Backpackers, a triple room with tv and ensuite facilities. It was a great place, I highly recommend it. It is 9km north of Te Anau itself.
Thursday we drove back to Qtown to get my stuff then shot off to Cardrona Valey to go horse back riding. Man oh man does it hurt if you canter and don’t get the same rythym as the horse! I got the trot fine but the canter!!! Painful. My horse was called Amigo but he was not my amigo at the end of the ride.
That night we were booked in a place in Wanaka. We dropped off our gear and went to the local movie theatre which is al sofas. You can eat at the half time intermission so we had wine and dinner at half time. After the movie we returned to the hostel only to find that someone had left the door open and the light on.
It was like a bug infestation in the room. Hundreds of mossies and other assorted bugs. Bizzie had a fit and was demanding to be moved to another rroom or get our money back. The lady who works there gott narked and moaned but vacumed them all up. We had decided to go anyway so we got our stuff and called another place and stayed at a lodge in town.
On Friday we headed up the coast and stopped to hike near to Fox Glacier. It was amazing really and I had not been up before having stayed at Franz Josef two nights some time before. We made it up to Hokitika where we stayed at the cheapest hostel ($13 a night) in a triple room above the Jade Factory on the main street. It was very clean and quiet and for $13 was a bargain! You also get 10% off anything in the jade store for staying there!
Today we drove back to Nelson but stopped at Kaiteriteri beach for a few hours and sat on the beach and swam in the sea. The girls dropped my off at my hostel and we have gone our seperate ways once more so I am sad to leave them.
I must go and eat as it is almost 9pm and very stuffy in this internet place.
Until we meet again…
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