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DUNEDIN AND SUROUNDING AREA Australasia » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin » New Zealand By richierich78March 27th 2007Richard Young HI ALL! WELL WE TRAVELLED TO DUNEDIN AFTER TE ANAU. TRAVELLING ALONG THE SOUTHERN SCENIC ROUTE WE CAME ACROSS THE LITTLE TOWN OF TUATAPERE. HERD THAT IT WAS THE SAUSAGE CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND. WHAT A FUNNY THING TO ASSOCIATE YOUR TOWN WITH. WE DID BUY SOME AND THEY WERE VERY NICE. EVENTUALLY GOT TO DUNEDIN AFTER TRAVELLING THROU... read more

After another long bus ride we arrived in Dunedin. We were dropped off from our bus at Dunedin's spectacular train station that was built with the wealth of a gold rush. It is a very elaborate building and represents a lot of the architecture in Dunedin - old and heavy. After climbing up just about every stair in the city we arrived at our hostel. It was a cozy little place and the view from our room looked out over the city. The view and the fact we were located just up the hill from the Speights Brewery absolutely made up for the climb! Our main reason for visiting Dunedin was to see the abundant wildlife on the Otago Peninsula. We took a tour led by two biologists who were Otago experts. We saw some ... read more

Hi All I hope you're well. Since Queenstown the weather down south has taken a somewhat unfortunate spin, with muchos rain. Not ideal! However, things are brightening up (and apparently it's worse in the north island anyway). Since leaving Queenstown (and Mel and Ricky) we've visited a couple of lakes. Lake Te Anau (rain) and Lake Manapouri (snow). Prefered Lake Manapouri just because in the morning the mountains (bottom of the southern alps) were covered in crisp snow. Lovely Jubbly! We stayed at Possum Lodge in a tin-can of a room. The girls and I gathered round the one heater in the room wrapped in our duvets and played cards. An experience for sure! Travelled in one day from one side of the country to the other (in the rain) to Dunedin and civilisation (and rain). ... read more

After the free beer, I went back to the hostel, and en route picked up a rugby shirt and free scarf to help me blend in at the rugby. Rugby was quite good fun- game wasn't very special, highlanders (my team hahaha) won by loads, although it was quite good fun watching the students (mostly the very not 18yrs old ones) get far too drunk. Back to hostel in preparation for big day of sightseeing the next day. First stop after breakfast in reall nice hostel that did free filter coffee (this made me happy) was the main street where they were having the world bagpiping championships. I found this a little bit strange, and got a headache after a while, so popped into famous coffee shop to read my book for a bit. Went ... read more

Hello one and all, we hope you are all in good health, and looking forward to the coming of summer and longer nights. Apologies for not getting this blog out sooner, but summer finally arrived in Dunedin in February and its just been too damn sunny and warm to spend our weekends sitting inside at a computer. So last time we blogged we were just back from a trip to Wanaka in Central Otago, which was one of the places we were thinking about moving for the winter. Well since then, we have decided to stay put here in Dunedin until about August. We decided it would be pretty expensive to move to a town like that, and it's a bit too 'touristy' to call home. We are pretty settled here in Dunedin and decided not ... read more