Greetings from Dunedin! Above is the lovely Dunedin train station, a very nice place to arrive in this beautiful city.
Plans changed and we found out that Montana's aunts van is not in Queenstown, but in a little town on the Southeast coast, so that's where we have been headed. We took a 6 hour bus trip down here a couple days ago and got to see some scenery, it actually looks a lot like Ireland with the little towns and the sheep and green hills. Beautiful!
Dunedin is such a cute town, it's actually named after Edinbourough (don't ask me how the two names are connected but apparently they are..) and has a lot of Scottish heritage. We arrived to bagpipes playing in the central square, which made the haul to our hostel a little bit better. Yesterday we went on a bike ride, followed by a tour of the Cadbury chocolate factory--nothing like chocolate samples to make you feel better about how out of shape you are... or wait, is that counterproductive? whatever...
It's pretty cold here, which is nice, and the clouds and mist make everything pretty. However, I am ill equipped to deal with cold weather. When unloading things to send home with my family in the gold coast heat and humidity, keeping jackets, sweatpants, long sleeved shirts, etc. was the last thing on my mind. Oops. Good thing New Zealand is home to some of the best wool in the world, I can get myself some hats and scarves, and who knows, if I have some free time in the wildreness maybe I will try my hand at knitting again!
Alas, I am off to get the van, learn to drive a manual, and begin roughing it hard core for the rest of the month. Wish me luck! I couldn't be more excited :)
Dunedin is such a cute town, it's actually named after Edinbourough (don't ask me how the two names are connected but apparently they are..) and has a lot of Scottish heritage. We arrived to bagpipes playing in the central square, which made the haul to our hostel a little bit better. Yesterday we went on a bike ride, followed by a tour of the Cadbury chocolate factory--nothing like chocolate samples to make you feel better about how out of shape you are... or wait, is that counterproductive? whatever...
It's pretty cold here, which is nice, and the clouds and mist make everything pretty. However, I am ill equipped to deal with cold weather. When unloading things to send home with my family in the gold coast heat and humidity, keeping jackets, sweatpants, long sleeved shirts, etc. was the last thing on my mind. Oops. Good thing New Zealand is home to some of the best wool in the world, I can get myself some hats and scarves, and who knows, if I have some free time in the wildreness maybe I will try my hand at knitting again!
Alas, I am off to get the van, learn to drive a manual, and begin roughing it hard core for the rest of the month. Wish me luck! I couldn't be more excited :)
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