Cadbury World Dunedin

It's a strange little coincidence, but travelling to the far South in NZ is like travelling North in England. The further you go, the more rural it gets; you see more farms, fields and sheep, the weather gets colder, the people are gruffer with thicker accents and eventually, everything just goes Scottish! The early settlers here were all from …

Bec and I were up and at 'em early, and headed towards Dunedin at about 8ish. We made a short stop to take photos at Cromwell along the way, and got into Dunedin about noon. After driving around trying to find a parking space we then walked down to the 'Octagon' and found a cafe for a quick cup of tea.

I think we were both a bit subdued …

Arrived just after noon time in Dunedin. Today's highlight will only be the visit to Cadbury World. Sen Zheng is now staying in YHA, totally a different hostel from me but Matthias stays in the same room as me. I feel he's too quiet and doesn't really talk much. Hard to get him to talk. You can ask him a million question and he gives those short …

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In the morning, after a very good breakfast, Sophie, her mother and I met my family at the chocolate factory. The first thing we saw when we walked in was the gigantic mountain of Crunchie bars with little automated elves going up and down in the front foyer. There also chocolate sculptures, and little fact panels you could flip over to …

After one night in the pleasant, but quiet town of Portobello, on the Otago Peninsula, we decided we'd head back into the city. We had wanted to go to the Albatross colony but was again put off by the idea of having to pay $30 each to see the birds. New Zealand has well and truly been discovered, and the tourism and DOC know it and it's a downside …

... least it is in New Zealand since I didn't have a scooby beforehand, including those bloody Himalayan streets, but it was the Cadbury World Factory we were keen to check out first. Free samples happily accepted.   Being greeted by an Oompah-Loompah ...

... almost like I was back at college in a coffee shop just off campus. Our first activity was a tour of Cadbury World, the chocolate factory in Dunedin. It was sort of neat seeing behind the scenes, and especially getting free chocolate, but it was still ...

... and back down again. We were quite glad it was winter, as even a slow walk to the top left us breathless. In Dunedin there is also Cadbury World and Speights Brewery which we passed on the way to Baldwin Street but we decided not to go to either. The ...

... got a haircut each and booked some tickets to see the rugby matches in Christchurch and Auckland. I was excited as Dunedin is the home of Cadbury World for New Zealand and for $15 each we were taken on a tour around the factory for an hour to see how ...

... . The hostel was a big rickety old house with bathrooms and kitchens scattered around. Nice enough though. That afternoon we went to Cadbury World! They take the tours more seriously here than in Birmingham as we had to wear hair nets etc but ...

travelled down to dunedin today - a big city that is a bit scottish really. Went to Cadbury world today as well! haven't been in england despite living 30 mins away but have been in new zealand. weird. Going to stay here for a few days i think - not sure ...

... didn't get up to much as everything seems to close around the Easter holidays. This morning (11th) we went on the 'Cadbury World' chocolate factory tour & then this afternoon we went on the 'Speights Brewery' tour, so a day full of eating ...

... , it's about 20 minutes away.  I walked around the town and took in some of the sights.  I was disappointed with the Cadbury World of Chocolate (the factory and store) because I wasn't allowed to go into the store - to spend money on chocolate ...

... Cadbury's chocolate factory in Dunedin where they do a guided tour and give you lots of chocolate (and no, I've not been to Cadbury World at Birmingham but the people on my tour who had said that this was better). We saw chocolate buttons, chocolate bars ...

... be a rash decision at that hour of the day (especially when free samples were again promised), we decided instead to visit Cadbury World, even though we'd already been to the original one in Bournville. As it was a Sunday, the actual factory production ...