Bygone Era Bed & Breakfast Dunedin

... the beach with three rooms and a big living area with windows all around looking out into the sea. We almost immediately set off for a walk along the beach and cliffs as this area is where you can see dolphins and….penguins! Well technically you can see them, we didn’t. However once again going on a penguin hunt did not leave us disappointed as we had some amazing views and a great clamber along the rocks out to sea. On the way back we watched and laughed as a ...

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Sauna
I have been to the sauna twice now. It is NZD 3 at OUSA (otago uni student assoc.). The temperature is 104C, quite hot as far as saunas go. I have been in saunas before and enjoyed them but hadn't really read any literature or learned about the actual benefits of the sauna. There are numerous benefits but for me the main ones are: stress relief, increased blood circulation, mimicry of fever (increase in ...

... and Fudge Brownie - but the standard product never quite tasted the same as UK Cadburys. Those secrets were unlocked for us on the tour - although the cocoa comes from the same place, Cadburys NZ use sugar from Australia and whole milk fresh from local cows. Highlight of the tour was the guide lady talking in hushed terms about the mystical 'curly wurly' that they are only allowed to release 2000 of a year which sell out almost straight away. Apparently Cadburys UK ...

Today was another day at sea but it was also the dance competition.  Ashley and I didn't win and of course Simon had to let everyone know he thought the competition was rigged J  But I had a lot of fun... I definitely want to get back into dancing when I get home.

... none of us really fancied it once we got there, as it was small and dark with no views. It was obvious then that we would have to find our own place to stay and we had picked up a brochure in the Info centre for some new apartments in a disused chapel, allegedly the oldest church building in the city, which is just up the road from where we were. After a couple of calls, first to the agent and then to the owner of the apartments, $300 in cash changed hands and we got the use of ...

Dunedin is a pretty coastal city with the world's steepest street!! We stayed there for 4 or 5 days with Elaine, Derek and Claire. It was lovely to eat great home cooked food, sleep in a bed and not a tent and endeavour to beat Claire on the Wii !! We were able to stand a few feet away from sea lions on nearby beaches and see many Albatross flying ...

... it a victory), and set off to Scotties. The nice man I spoke to the day before had promptly disappeared to Auckland for a conference (probably not minutes after I left, cackling maniacally all the way) and left not a scrap of info about me for his poor colleague, who at first seemed slightly suspicious of my ravings about another car. And, as is always the way with me, the more someone seems to be suspicious of me, the more suspicious I begin to act. God ...

... is geographically reminiscent of its Scottish namesake. I drove up onto the hill east of the entrance to the bay to try to get a photograph to illustrate this, and found myself on high sandy cliffs with dodgy "cornices". A couple of photos, then I came by surprise upon a group of bedraggled birds sheltering just over the edge. Walking back from this, I saw a four-wheel drive vehicle pass my van and follow approximately the path I'd ...

... Most of it is actually not visible because it is covered by dirt. It was still really cool from where we were standing. After spending some time at the top of our lookout we decided to head back to the car and back on our way. We headed back to where we started and had some lunch at a cafe that Tony had mentioned called the Wrinkley Rams. Not bad food, although I am not so sure about the name. After that we decided to go to Dunedin so that the next day we could drive through the Catlins.

this past tuesday was the first sunny day that we've had in over a week... so i jumped at the opportunity to go to the beach. i've been dying to go but promised myself i would go only when the weather was good (partly because i wanted my pictures to come out well!) there are three beaches within dunedin city limits: st. clair, st. kilda and tunnel beach. i chose st. clair to go to first because i had heard there were a ...