It was great to spend a few days in Queenstown. This is by far our favourite town so far. It was quiet (it would be a big party town during snow season), we had great weather (got a little sunburnt), the scenery is great - mountains, water, snow, trees a bit of everything, the food was just a good - lots of restaurants and ice-cream - Patagonia Ice-cream I think I should have brought shares in it as we seemed to gravitate to it every afternoon…. On Saturday we decided to do a leisurely 2.5 hour walk up Queenstown hill. It might be a hill to NZ standards, but not to ours. It basically went straight up the mountain, to a height of about 907M. We were higher than the Gondola that's only about 480M. The
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