This was another layday, especially after 4 days of travelling and me driving some 800 odd kilometres ( that's about 1100 miles) It is also a chance to visit and absorb Queenstown and organise the following days shenanigans.
Vudu cafe certainly lived upto it's travel guide reviews, serving an over portioned but all eaten breakfast ( brunch) of French toast, breakfast quesadilla and eggs benedict with a large latte and pot of tea. I just had fruit and a yoghurt.
It's a beautiful town in a spectacular setting, the aptly named 'Remarkables' mountain range flank the one side, the harbour area still has a steamship and the town is laid out in an old Western gridiron.
The afternoon we visited ArrowTown, an old gold mining town and straight out of the Wild West, but in the South East, very quaint, it even had a Chinese settlement dating back to the early 19th century when they had the gold tunnel from Beijing to Queenstown, probably.
We dined on Thai, they have a number of Asian restaurants in-between the pubs, we had the usual Pad Thai and Green Curry and then back to the hotel amidst all the halloweeners, apparently in NZ a wig constitutes a costume, piss poor I say.
Oh, we did a movie yesterday, a mildly entertaining thing with Timberlake called Time Out.
And the Smarties here don't come in tubes they come in rectangles, I don't know who did the Market study for that and why Kiwis are confused by tubes but boxes they are in- and Cadbury's have a Smartie but they call them Pebbles but it's not the same chocolate down here....Am I rambling?
Activity day tomorrow, we are both riding, however I fear the risks maybe greater on my steed than that of Ais' and I couldn't find it on my 'activities we cover' list, on the insurance docs. Should be fun then!
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