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It has been 2 weeks since my last entry; this a result of the slowing down of my experiences, expenditures, and general energy I put into my daily hurrying. Such a slowing down has occurred in every instance of this nature. You travel to a new place, meet new people who are eager to meet you, buy new things, eat new food, climb up and down new mountains, blah blah etc. and do this for two weeks until you are tired of this or something bad happens or ...

... and picking up some sausages it was time to head back to Face and drive out to the Otago Peninsula, the drive out here once again was awesome, plenty of nice coastal views, but the Kiwi's don't appear to believe in guardrails. We checked into a camping site/van park in Portobello and then went for a drive further up the peninsula in search of Flamin Seabirds AKA Albatross, we saw a few hassling a fishing boat, but then the group tourists arrived ...

Journal pour les 28 fevrier et 1er mars. Le centre ville de Dunedin (daniden...???) est en forme d'octogone et ca s'appelle "The Octogon", original non? Toute l'activite sociale de la ville y est concentree. Utile pour un touriste egare comme moi. Comme je suis arrive assez tard je decide de m'y rendre pour souper. Et c'est vendredi soir en plus. Apres la bouffe je vais tester la biere locale, par pur interet culturel evidemment... J ...

... with lots of people, a barbie is lit with lots of lamb, people share dishes ,games are played and MUCH alcohol is consumed...it is the way to go. Candy did prevail and introduce our friends to our usual dinner with pasta,sauce meatballs...and yes, persuaded everyone to go to a midnight service for carroling. We went on Christmas day to our friends...20 people or so...got there at noon or so and got home at 3AM...got into a ...

... I was able to photograph them without embarrassment despite the two tripod-wielding chaps beside me. Nugget Point was well worth the drive and walk to it; very scenic and with seals. The bay to the east was surprisingly calm, considering what happened at Cathedral Caves. A bit more action to the west, but there were no penguins visible from the hide there. Others had waited for a couple of hours for them; I gave them ten minutes then moved on.

... que volvian de su dia en el mar, camino a la casa, en los monticulos que rodeaban la playa. Por lo visto son bastante timidos y asociales, asi que tuvimos suerte de verlos, un poco de lejos (algunos algo mas cerca) sin que saliesen huyendo. Que majos! Una vez vistos los bichos, cogimos de nuevo la carretera (esta vez con nueva musica, ya que le regale a mi padre un recopilatorio de Billy Joel). By Pato From Te Anau, after the cruise, we took again the road to Dunedin... a ...

... I stood on the platforms between the cars most of the time, which was a lot more fun than staying inside, I think. So, that's the quick update.  Tomorrow morning I'm headed back to Christchurch, and there's a welcome reception in the evening.  I'll try to fill in some details on the past few days when I have more internet time. Bye for now! ----- Update on 5/27/08 ------ I wanted to add some more details now that I have some free wireless. As I mentioned I stayed in the ...

... for about 1km. It was very dark and very damp, I started thinking about a film with a similar road where the mountain caved in either side and the people were stuck for days. Happily we emerged the other side and continued on our way. We arrived in the picturesque victorian looking town and located our hostel, expertly named Hogwarts! Sadly it wasn't a school for witches and wizards so it looks like I'll have to ...