Queenstown - the place for every exciting sport you ever dreamed of ! A population of just under 10,000 permanents but it feels much bigger. I actually had flu for the most of our time here but if you are going to be ill, I would have to recommend doing it in 25 degrees sunshine with truely awesome scenery surrounding you ! On the Friday we did the Kawarau Jet boating (very different from the Shotover). Gives you a full 60 minutes and you get very wet but great fun. Once I got out of bed these days we wandered around the parks etc and just admired wonderful scenery. We did do the Gondola cable car thing on Sunday (I was feeling a lot better) and watched the bungy jumpers, paragliders etc. Ate in a variety of restaurants (I wasn't much into food these days) and found a really nice small hotel to have a pre-dinner drink in, with lovely views across the lake.
We discovered that accomodation the South Island was almost unattainable, car hire was nearly impossible and it was all much busier than normal peak season - so Alex ended up sorting some stuff out - a hire car from Rent-A-Dent - I jest you not ! And the only accomodation he could find for 2 nights when we were going on the Doubtful Sound in a place called Lumsden - but more on that later.
Noticed that the bus stops all had the ability for you to press the number of the bus you wanted and it would tell you how long until the next one !!
Also learned an Irish Maxim (that I've never heard before) which goes - God invented alcohol to stop the Irish ruling the world !
So on that note I'll sign off and try and do another update soon on driving in the Southern half of the South Island.
Hope everybody well
Love Ursula and Alex xx
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