9th September - Queenstown full of queens.
Welcome to Queenstown, home of this years gay ski week, there are queens nearly everywhere here. I am not one of them, got it! But the other two sometimes boss me around like they are...
Queenstown is definitely the party town of the South Island. Tonnes of snow bunnies of all descriptions are drinking themselves to death nightly. As more mature travellers, no lauging, we have indulged only in the restaurants and early happy hours. Reasons being that we are knackered and hungry by the time we get to 9 due to the day's activities and that happy hours are great and we drink too quick. £1.50 a pint is fun.
Yesterday we went snow boarding up Coronet Peak which is only half an hour from Queenstown. All 3 of us got up there for a brisk 9am start for our lesson with the lovely Marmar. By lunch we had mastered the falling over and the getting up. After lunch we moved onto turning left and right. Success was had by both Liz and myself, though Sarah had to pull out due to some nasty foot problems. Don't be alarmed the red wine sorted them out and there have been necessary measures taken for our glacier walk later on next week. But snow boarding was awesome, would love to doit again, when I get the chance. Very simple to learn and a lot of fun as long as you don't wipe out too much. I only had a couple of big offs to speak of but still alive to tell the tales.
Again, scenery is a big part of life here, one which I've missed out on so may move here temporarily when we get back.
Today we shopped a bit, Sarah bought an Australian rugby top in New Zeland, and generally whinged about all of the bruises and aches and pains that we got from yesterday. We also went up the gondola ride to the top of another peak where there was some awesome views of the town and the surrounding mountains, Coronet Peak and the Remarkables.
Not long to go unfortunately now. Tomorrow sees our biggest drive yet, a 7 hour thriller through some mountain passes to Franz Joseph, a glacier of immense proportions.
Laters
Pricey
P.S. Still haven't seen a bloddy Kiwi yet! The Kiwi zoo was shut damnit.
Queenstown is definitely the party town of the South Island. Tonnes of snow bunnies of all descriptions are drinking themselves to death nightly. As more mature travellers, no lauging, we have indulged only in the restaurants and early happy hours. Reasons being that we are knackered and hungry by the time we get to 9 due to the day's activities and that happy hours are great and we drink too quick. £1.50 a pint is fun.
Yesterday we went snow boarding up Coronet Peak which is only half an hour from Queenstown. All 3 of us got up there for a brisk 9am start for our lesson with the lovely Marmar. By lunch we had mastered the falling over and the getting up. After lunch we moved onto turning left and right. Success was had by both Liz and myself, though Sarah had to pull out due to some nasty foot problems. Don't be alarmed the red wine sorted them out and there have been necessary measures taken for our glacier walk later on next week. But snow boarding was awesome, would love to doit again, when I get the chance. Very simple to learn and a lot of fun as long as you don't wipe out too much. I only had a couple of big offs to speak of but still alive to tell the tales.
Again, scenery is a big part of life here, one which I've missed out on so may move here temporarily when we get back.
Today we shopped a bit, Sarah bought an Australian rugby top in New Zeland, and generally whinged about all of the bruises and aches and pains that we got from yesterday. We also went up the gondola ride to the top of another peak where there was some awesome views of the town and the surrounding mountains, Coronet Peak and the Remarkables.
Not long to go unfortunately now. Tomorrow sees our biggest drive yet, a 7 hour thriller through some mountain passes to Franz Joseph, a glacier of immense proportions.
Laters
Pricey
P.S. Still haven't seen a bloddy Kiwi yet! The Kiwi zoo was shut damnit.
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