Alice’s Gap Year Travels

In total we ended up staying in QT for just over 2 weeks. Pretty much continued doing the same as i’ve already written. Our routine became staying up until around 4am either having been out on the town (participating in another Blind-leading-the-blind bar crawl, dressing up as ‘Chavs and Slags’!) or just staying up chatting with duvets infront of the fire with our mates.. sleeping until around 2pm getting up, eating, getting ready and going out again! haha

We stayed in Nomads and made friends with most of the staff which gave us many benefits on the sly, including free internet time, free laundry, drinking after time, replacement room-keys and access to a kitchen key when in need of a snack at 3 in the morning! haha – Too soon however, it was time for us to leave and head back to Christchurch ready to head for the North Island.

After a night in Chch we got up early to get the bus to Kiakora but it forgot to pick us up so we were stuck in Chch for another couple days which sucked. Realising we only had 4 weeks until home got us thinking that maybe we weren’t ready to finish travelling yet and how we could possibly go back to QT, try and find jobs and stay for the ski season returning in September ready for uni etc. We were in limbo and felt so confused as to what to do.. after much deliberation however we decided that it was too risky, no matter how much we loved the place and the people, this time money had to hold us back, having been able to do pretty much whatever we wanted till then we didn’t want to ruin our trip by falling into issues where we couldn’t get jobs etc. plus we may as well apply for our working visas when we can really make the most of them and stay for a whole year!!!

So, drama over we eventually made it to Kiakora which is a little seaside town at the north of the South Island, we stayed in an old fashioned hostel which was really cute with ancient wall paper and carpets and spent our day looking round the shops and watching movies. Next day we were back on the bus and got the ferry across to the North Island and Wellington, the capital city.

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