Blogs from Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 138

Hey again guys, it doesn't seem like it but we must have been in Queenstown for 5 days now, they've absolutely flown by and find us stuck in one place for the next few weeks at least. I guess i should also say a couple of lines about Queenstown - about 7500 people living around an absurdly picturesque lake with a huge summer and winter transient population. Lots of silly sports involving falling insanely long distances (usually downwards) or getting extremely cold and wet, and all looked over by huge mountains that will soon become engulfed in snow - basically Queenstown is good looking. Consequently as you'll read we're 99.99% sure we're going to stay here through the winter season and try and make some money from Joe Toursist. On arrival here the first order was ... read more

hopefully some photos will magically appear...... A cold but fantastic day. Sorry cant write more, curses to internet cafes! We're in Queenstown now and looking to stop being bums and get some jobs and a nice place to live for a while, fingers crossed! Claire xxx... read more

Greetings from a slightly fitter Marc then when i last blogged. In the last few days we have braved the worlds most dynamic glacier, hot footed along the last stretch of the West Coast (bye bye huge beards) and seen Wanaka and now Queenstown. So, firstly the glacier walk. After booking in for an early start we rose at 7pm and sleepily made scrambled eggs (again) and a had a much needed cup of tea before stubbling across the The Guiding Companies building across town. Our first job was to kit out in waterproof tops, bottoms, boots and crampons. After a quick introduction to the guides we started to meet and greet the others who would be on the trip as well. The most lively turned out to be a Venezuelan called Alex who enthused about ... read more

Queenstown is the bigger sister of Wanaka, and is not even referred to as a town, but as a resort. It is the extreme sport centre of the world, most probably, and is where you can skydive, bungy jump and do all manner of things that might actually kill you. It is situated in the beautiful Remarkables mountain range, again which turns into a hotbed of skiing and snow sports in the winter. It is also a centre of cool bars where backpackers in their droves hang out and get exceedingly drunk. So I just had to join in. And with a very very large hangover I departed the lovely Queenstown for a four day trip along the very bottom of NZ.... read more

I forgot to attach the best photo of all to the previous blog. Needless to say the post canyon swinging teapots did not contain tea (unless you count long island iced tea, that is!)... read more