Friday 23 February 2007

I'm in Melbourne now

I'm in Melbourne and still havn't written about what everything that we got up to NZ yet. I'll see how much I can remember.

Since leaving Franz Josef we went to a really small town called Makarora, a bit like Barrytown really but not as weird and not as full of "local people". We actually had a really good night there. We arrived at about 6 in the evening and then had a swim in the pool and then the Kareoke began! It was a very cheesy night fuelled by a lot of alcohol but it was really fun. It helped us get to know the other people on our bus better. Apart from drinking and publicly making fools or ourselves we didn't do anything else there. The scenery was amazing, you could see Mount Cook from the dorm window and there was a huge lake, it was really beautiful, it's a shame we had to get the bus in morning and didn't get to explore the area a bit more.

The next morning we were due to set off at 10.30 but the bus broke down so we were delayed for about an hour or so, not too long, i thought we'd be stuck for hours. We set off on the bus towards Queenstown, we stopped a couple of time for photo opportunities and had a short walk around a lake which was nice. We arrived in Queenstown in the late afternoon. Queenstown is the adventure capital of the world but as we'd already done lots of adventure stuff on the way down we decided to just go lugeing. It was soooo much fun. You get a gondola up the side of a mountain/hill and then you slide down it again on what is bacically a metal tray with wheels. We did that 6 times and then went for a curry. Curries here are just not as good as in England! After that we went to sit on the beach of the lake which was lovely and hot but the water was just too cold to swim in although I managed a quick dip in and then a quick run out! That night there was more kareoke in the bar but this time we didn't take part. We just watched but it was a fun night again.

The next day we made our way up to Christchurch. It was a long and hot day on the bus with no stops, just driving for hours and hours. Not much to say about Christchurch though. It was just like any city, didn't love it or hate it. We didn't really do much there. Just relaxed a bit really.

We flew from Christchurch to Sydney at 6am which meant that we didn't sleep all night, we arrived in Sydney in the morning but then had to wait until 9 that night for our flight to Melbourne. We were so tired and saw a bit of Sydney with very tired eyes, we just wasted the day really by just sitting around and sleeping in the park. We arrived in Melbourne late last night and then got a taxi to our hostel although it wasn't as simple as that as the taxi driver didn't know where our hostel was. We got out the taxi and wondered around for an hour or so after having not slept for a long long time with backpacks on out back. Eventually we found out hostel and slept. We've just got up this morning so havn't seen anything of Melbourne yet. Looking forward to it though. We're doing the Neighbours tour on monday, i know it's sad but i'm very excited about it. Hopefully we'll meent Karl Kennedy or Harold! I'll let you know how i get on.

No comments: