We
finished our last stint of woofing at John and Karens and headed south so we
could do the Tongerio crossing. Sandrine, one of our Woofing companions wanted
to head south too and since we had a car we were more than happy to give her a
lift. John and Karen have been perfect hosts, nothing is too much trouble and
before we left they told us that if we had any problems, ran out of money or
needed somewhere to stay all we had to do was give them a call and they would
help us out.
We
headed off to do the Tongerio crossing and drove south for about 5 hours and
spent the night in a hostel, before we checked into the hostel we called into
an information centre to check out if the crossing would be possible to do the
next day, we were told that the weather forecast was not too good and we should
call back in the morning, if the weather was fine we would be able to do the
crossing then. When we woke the next day it was raining so we didn’t even
bother going back to the information centre, we decided to load up the car and
head for Wellington so we could continue our way onto the south island,
Sandrine decided to head further south with us too, it’s nice to have someone
else to travel with and it also helps with the petrol money too! The driver to
Wellington didn’t take too long when we arrived we found ourselves another
hostel and got ourselves settled in. We decided that night to go out for a few
drinks, it turned into a heavy drinking session with shots of
Bourbon/Jagermeister and countless beers been downed…and lots of silly dancing
all in all a great night out. Lloyd and I decided to blame our hangovers on
Sandrine since it was her idea to drink shots. We had a quiet day due to the
hangovers and Lloyd and I decided to go and see the Avengers, it’s not a bad
film if you’re into your comic books you’ll probably enjoy it.
The
next day we went up to Mount Victoria from
the top you get an amazing view of Wellington, as you may have heard Wellington
is called the windy city and it’s true that it always seems to be windy here
especially when you get to the top of
the mountain. After we had finished at the top we walked down to
Wellingtons museum, the museum itself is really nice, we looked around a few
floors and then decided to go and have a coffee.
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| Wellington, the windy city |
Lloyd
and I are ready to look for work now, we both seem to be in the same frame of
mind and are ready to find somewhere to settle for a while now and stop moving
for a few months. We’ve been on the move since the 5th December and
have moved locations every few days; the longest we have stayed in a
destination is while we have been woofing, don’t get me wrong travelling has
been great fun so far but it would be nice to unpack the bags for a bit and
settle somewhere, make new friends and really get a feel for a place.
Today
(30th April) We headed for the south island, its about 3 ½ hours on
a ferry, Sandrine did the crossing with us and then she jumped on the Kiwi bus
to see some other parts of the south island, she is heading for the Queenstown
too so I am sure we will all meet up at some point to have a few more shots of
Bourbon and Jagermeister! Lloyd and I have just arrived in Nelson where we
might spend a few more days before we head further south as I have said we’re
both eager to find some work in Queens Town or Wanaka so the way I see it the
sooner we get there the sooner we can get ourselves settled
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