Here’s hoping Milford sound is worth this extra effort.
Let you know in 13 hours when we return.
Wanna go back to bed here.
Mrs Fogg has excelled on the hotel front with the Queenstown Bates Morel, aptly named “Amityville Hotel on the Hill”.
Queenstown from here.
Arrowtown is tiny and geared to tourists but has a nice feel to it. We’ve stopped for lunch at the old Postmasters house which is very quaint, with very English china tea cups and what can only be described as an English cottage garden surrounding the veranda.
Next we plan to amble around and I might even visit the little museum here.
A little bit of history for you. Settled in 1860 this tiny place found one of the richest alluvial gold fields in NZ and sparked an immense gold rush with over 4000 immigrants coming to grab it. It had a china town and plenty of ruffians and baddies to make it a true wild west.
Today there are 2000 inhabitants.
History lesson over..
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Next step walking over burning coals!
Footloose from here.
This was us enjoying a four course meal (we got the munches) in the local restaurant in Wanaka.
Nice evening.
Today we are off to Queenstown.
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Then we visited the Maze. 1.5km of maze with a challenge to get to four coloured towers in each corner of the maze. Apparently the average person will cover 3-5km to achieve this in maybe 1 to 1.5hrs. Challenge accepted off we went. Of course competitive Mr Fogg and I separated determined to beat each other to the challenge.
Unfortunately Mr Fogg somehow managed to beat me in getting to the four towers but like me he cheated to exit the place since we would have been stuck for a few more hours otherwise.
All told a fab afternoon acting like children and running around like five year olds trying to compete in high temperatures and a crazy maze.
Ah so the loser got to take Mr Fogg for a meal in town so we opted for a restaurant looking over the lake. Bliss. Mr Fogg, my lover,best friend and crazy man!!
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The sun is shining and it’s very warm sat here and peaceful even though this is the most built up area we have seen since Nelson.
So, this afternoon we are off to play at Puzzling World, a big play space for adults with lots of ( can you guess??) puzzles to ponder and a 1.5km maze to get lost in.
Wanaka features in the very start of the Lord of The Rings Two Towers film. since Mount Aspiring and the mountain ranges at the head of the lake are the opening shots of Moria.
Neither of us can believe we are about to start our final week of holiday, it seems to have gone so fast.
There is so much more to see that I suspect we will be planning. return. The downside is that it’s not a cheap place to visit. Must buy a few lottery tickets then…
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Today is a scenic drive over the Haast Pass along a road that took 35 years to build (sounds like British workmen) to Wanaka at the foot of Mt Aspiring, taking in some amazing scenery along the way including the Blue Pools and the Thunder Falls, both of which were extremely refreshing on flip flop feet, cool as ice.
Onward then.
Wanaka here we come from here.
Well after emailing the company relentlessly and threatening legal action and quoting the Sale of Goods Act verbatim (personally I think it was the threat of hunting them down and sending some of Spikes presents in the post that did it), they eventually refunded all but the delivery, satisfied, nope, so the battle continued. Every time we got WiFi in NZ another batch of flames would go out and reviews on any review site going. Success, they relented refunding every penny begging us to stop contacting them, Ha!
Mark that one up for the consumer.
We Haast won from here.