June 2009 - the farewell tour of South Island: Photos 21 to 42

The (almost) 6 months that I never got around to mentioning on this blog have been and gone, and I fear it is just too late to resurrect them now. So I'll give you a quick summary - Christmas and New Year in Melbourne, which was brilliant........ the return to NZ in January, a few days in Wellington, then across to Nelson......... January and most of February doing very little except settling in to life in Nelson and enjoying the summer sunshine, and thinking that I really ought to get around to finding a job at some point......... most of March and April working at a small vineyard just outside Nelson, which was a fantastic experience, plus a couple of weeks working at a hostel/rainforest retreat on the West coast, which was a lot of fun........ and the first 3 weeks of May packing kiwi fruit, which was a low point (I can't begin to describe how tedious, but I guarantee it stops you complaining about your old job back home). At this point I was about to set off on another adventure around South Island when, as some of you will know already, I found out I need to have

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