Best Western Coronet Alpine Queenstown

... hostels) and my upper bunk (I always get the last bed, it's always an upper bunk, usually the one above the completely silent Japanese girl), Heather asked me to join the team for the pub quiz round the corner. I told her I couldn't answer any questions on: popular music after 1980, soaps, sport, or questions about New Zealand. She said that was all right as long as I could do everything else (I said I could). Anyway, disappointingly, the ...

... made a point to stop as often as we liked and took yet even more pictures as the environment changed from alpine rocks and crumbling moraine, through stunted Beech forest and finally to the braided river with grazing meadows of the glacier valley below. Once again, thank goodness for digital cameras!

Queenstown

After a few days of hiking and touring around Wanaka we made the roughly hour and half drive over to Queenstown. As the road was clear of ...

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Next, we were off to winery #2: Peregrine Vineyards. This was a more modern winery and the owner was very gracious and kind. We tried a couple of pinots here as well, but once again, it was the reisling that made me smile. Both Gill and I will be bringing some bottles home. We’re not sure yet how we’ll manage this, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out.

... Felton Road – Possibly the best known of the Otago producers to fine wine lovers. Situated in the Bannockburn region where the landscape has been ravaged by Gold Mining activity with washed out clay cliffs and flat planes by the river. The area also gets low rainfall and is actually classed as a desert!

2008 C******nay – French oak, 10% new for 12 months, full malo. Citrus nose. Big wine, fresh with good acidity ...

... and we were looking like a likely candidate for "flipping". I knew it was bad as Phil always stays really calm and doesn't get as nervous as me, but when he said let's get changed, get our boots on and sit in the front I knew this was serious!!!

So there we were like two wallies, sitting in the pitch black rocking from side to side. I have to say its the biggest diuretic going!!! Phil started making emergency planning i.e. if we were toppling over we were going to ...

... and this point, and Kathryn and I both felt like we should go to Queenstown. So, we all believed and asked God for a family and a home to stay in tonight and a home-cooked meal. Also, as we began hitchhiking from the town around 4:30 pm, I asked God to pick us up before we even got out of town. Actually, it is pretty difficult to get a ride from in town, but less than 2 blocks later, a car pulled over and picked us up. Their names were Daniel ...

... olid kiwid erilistes tingimustes, seesruumides klaasi taga. Kuna sattusime sinna täpselt sel ajal kui kiwil oli öö (mis tähendab tema jaoks aga aktiivset ringisebimist), siis oli seal pime ning teda pildistada ei tohtinudki. Vaadata oli küll põnev, sest sellist teist lindu mina kül ei tea olemas olevat :) Nii pika nokaga ja ilma tiibadeta. Kiwi tegi oma igapäevaseid toimetusi, nokkis pinnast ja kohati ka klaasi, mille tagant me teda piilusime, ent kurb oli see, et tal oli ka ...

... on the bus we headed on our way, south through some pretty rugged terrain, it was such an amazingly beautiful part of the country though, you can really see why it is called the Wild West Coast. Before heading inland through and over the Haast Pass we stopped at the last ocean lookout, the scenery was awe inspiring, as much of NZ is, the reason I mention the place though is because I left my lens cap there, by mistake obviously but it was left nonetheless - lame. It was a very long ...