Headed to Wanaka today...stayed in a lovely hostel called the Purple Cow. Probably one of the best hostels we have stayed in so far and a mere $26. Although it was raining when we arrived we spent an afternoon playing pool and the monopoly as the hostel was very relaxed and had great spaces in order to just spend some time doing nothing in particular. We then had a great night visiting a small cinema called Paradiso it has sofas for seats, an old yellow Morris Minor to sit in if you wanted..although we tried the Morris we ended up settling for a sofa which we found more comfortable. Managed to drink our way through two bottles of Merlot that were available at the cinema and watched a pretty good film (Australia). Loved the fact the
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