We done travelled to Dunedin
Trip Start
Apr 20, 2007
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Trip End
Nov 2007
Dunedin,
New Zealand
Friday, September 14, 2007
the journey there was splendid. i did the 1st half which was almost completely straight along one road. the scenery was awesome so we stopped about once every 10 minutes to get photos. we stopped in a town halfway there to wander round briefly and wonder at the fact that it looked so much like Dudley High Street, only without any people. we bought some socks and i managed to get railroaded into buying smaller ones than i wanted, so instead of us having 3 pairs each Aymi ended up with 6 pairs of em, i still had none. i'm not bitter.
so the freshly socked Aymi and I had a sumptuous lunch made in the back of the camper in the car-park staffed by freemasons, a sumptuous lunch made with the free food that we were loaded up with in Christchurch - i wandered back from the kitchen one morning with the clean pots and a giant box of food under my arm, only to see that A had been given another box of free food by someone else, so as i was taking the stuff we didn't need back to the pile in the kitchen the last thing she expected was yet _another_ bag of free food from yet another lovely person who was finishing their holiday whilst we were starting ours, bloomin ace this country!!!
A drove the rest of the way, in her nice new comfortable socks.
arriving in Dunedin, we immediately went the wrong way and A in her new socks had to do a 3 point turn in Jucy (our campa).
walking around Dunedin (A in her new socks and me still with the one pair i had in the rucksack, someone must have stolen all the other pairs i brought with me, we hadn't worn any since Japan). in the freezing cold, we decided that we deserved some chocolate, when what did we see? only blimmin Cadbury's! the tour was brilliant for 4 reasons 1) it was warmer than outside 2) it smelled of chocolate 3) we got random chocolates for 'free' and 4) not only did i have to wear a hairnet, but i also had to wear a beard snood, or face hammock. the Cadbury's chocolate in NZ is blimmin ace, they're about the only chocolate company in the country and therefore can come up with new and exciting flavours - perky nana was one of our favourites, along with banoffee dairy milk and chocolate fudge brownie dairy milk. you get to see most of the factory and marvel at the giant slabs of chocolate they produce for ice cream and cake companies. all of that and right at the end, they drop 1 tonne of liquid chocolate from one hopper into the other, the world's biggest chocolate waterfall!!! i got splashed by it and A scraped it off with her fingernail and ate it before i even got chance to look at it... damn her and her new socks!
oh and for all those that are my age or older... curly wurlys used to be 30cm long, it's not just cos we've got bigger, they've got 50% smaller!
the sights of Dunedin for us were, as mentioned before graffiti, street art, Dowling Street and the shops that sold warm clothes so we wandered a bit with no agenda, after a gourmet meal of subway sandwiches followed by a long awaited crepe with lemon curd (the butterscotch had sold out... bah) we meandered back to our chariot and ventured homewards, looking forward to the next day when we were going to see us some yellow eyed penguins in the wild...
i drove, A was too busy admiring her new socks.
