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The 19 year olds birthday party begins Queenstown So we arrived in Queenstown at about 6pm after spending all day on a bus, and with the same driver from the last trip, the one with a stutter. So to spend all day with him jabbering on the mic was a pain.
So what do you do after a day spent on a bus building a head ache, that's right, go out drinking and make sure you end up with one the next day................ There was good reason, it was a girl's birthday who was traveling with us (it was her 19th birthday, that hurt!), so we were invited out for a few drinks. We had also made friends with two guy's from the UK, Kay & Andy, whilst we've been traveling and it was their last evening with us as we were staying in QT for a week, & they left the day after, so you call it a good bye party too.
As you'll see all started well with a couple of drinks, quite tame, but by the time we mover to the next place,
the world bar, the shots had come out and people were drinking cocktailes out of tea pots............need I
say more! I of course took it easy to make sure Lynds didnt over do it & needed carrying home (yer right).
The whole idea for getting to QT for me was so that I could go snowboarding on the southern alps, but as I cant organise a pi$$ up in a brewery, we where a month to early for the snow, so that didnt happen. With this in mind we had to do something, so the first thing we did was go on the shot over jet boat which was a whole lot of fun, basically this boat hammers it along a river on water which is literally inches deep running through canyons really close to the walls, then the pist der resistance, it completes a 360 degree spin. It wasnt very scarry, but a whole lot of fun, we laft all through it even though we were soaked.
The following day we took it easy and explored the town and took in the sights which are amazing. You can see a mountain range called the remarkables, which is in some of the scenes from Lord of the rings.
The last thing we did to keep
Four for tea
spot the beer drinker ourselves occupied was to take a sky gonodola up to the top of a small mountain (cant remember the name) then once on top ride the Luge. Basically a go kart track which sloaps down the top of the mountain, which again was a real giggle.
This was about all we did in QT in the five day's there, unfortunatly the hostel was awful, the worst so far. We hardly slept the whole time we were in QT because people were running riot all night every night, so it was quite hard. Need to go back though & stay at a better place cos QT if a cool town.
Duneden This is the sister town of Edinburgh & was founded by two scotish guy's years ago (in to my history then). It looks nothing like Edinburgh, but was as cold as. We spent just two night's here and the high light was a tour of the local brewery, "Speights". It was a working brewery and we were shown around their small museum & then into where they brew up...............Mmmmmmmmmmm know this is my kind of trip especially as we ended the tour with a tasting session, bring
it on. They had six different beer's to taste in small glasses (Booo), and they were all quite nice. After that we had a meal in their resturant which was fantastic, a real change to Lyndsay's cooking!!!
I started to come down with a cold the next day & wasnt up for muchm so we took a trip on a really old train through a place called the tera gourge. The scenery was once again spectacular, and the average age of the other occupants of the train must have been 90, but when your ill your not jumping out of planes now are you.
Lake Taupo We spent just one night here, not alot to say about it except I was really full of a cold & it was my birthday, bummer. None the less I fought through it with a few VB's (beer) and we had a BBQ in the pitch black & freezing cold. Lynds & another girl we'd met got me a birthday cake with 34 candles on it (dont know why thay many I'm only 21) and a birthday card signed by people from the bus, most of them I didnt know, butcool non
the less.
Christchurch The city of churches is it's strap line. A really clean and nice city, with a cool cafe culture going on. This was our last stop in New Zealand, and it was just the perfect place to end it. The weather was good all the time, the botanical gardens were beautiful with the river Avon running through the middle & water featured everywhere. We took a tram ride through the city, which was strange as we'd started our trip in the US on trams, now ending N.Z on another.
This was the perfect place to relax and catch up on some sleep, and befitting the occassion, we stade in the best hostel so far, double onsuite room with sky TV and a fridge.........pure luxury.
So all we did here was explore, take in the cathedral, hit the cafe's & bar's and relaxed waiting for our flight to OZ............which is where you'll be hearing from us next. Bye for know
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Mum & John
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goodbye but not forgotten
You have now come to the end of your magical mystical tour of NZ on your magic bus. do they take bus passes? what a journey, I hope it was everything you hoped for, it certainly looked like it was. So your both ready to start the next adventure, but this adventure is the BIG ONE. A whole new life lies before you. Enjoy this one, it lasts a life time. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Love you both.