After a short telephone call to
my parents I’ve decided to do a short piece on the problems with travelling. I
originally phoned my parents as I needed to hear some supportive words after
having a run of shitty luck, we had our car wind screen chipped after an on
coming truck flicked a stone at us while travelling to Queenstown to look for
work, after arriving there and walking round to hand out CVs we didn’t get the
best response from any place we went into to enquire about work during the
winter season and now I’m full of cold and aching from working outside in the
pouring rain, in the back of my mind I hear the quote from Withnail and I ‘’I
feel like a pig just shat in my head’’ and ‘’We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’’. The parents
response during the telephone call was ‘’but you must be having the time of
your lives down there etc etc’’. Yes travelling is an amazing experience but
just like being at home you do have your
ups and downs and sometimes it’s a right pain in the arse as you’re constantly
having to think and plan ahead plus sometimes you travel long distances and
don’t spend long in one place. People must think that you spend all your time
partying and living it up, this really isn’t the case, since arriving in New
Zealand we’ve not had many nights out as we’ve been trying to save money and
have been WOOFing in some quite remote places, most of out money has spent has
gone on petrol, food and accommodation, I’ve not even had an hair cut for 2
months and am beginning to look like Stig of the Dump! (could be the reason I
didn’t get the best responses when job hunting!)
As I’ve said in previous posts we
both want to find somewhere to settle and find a flat/houseshare for our remaining
months in NZ, I mean you can only enjoy the novelty of staying in hostels for a
short while, fighting for a place in the kitchen and been woken by people
coming in late pissed up or leaving rooms extremely early can knock a bit of
the ‘fun’ out of travelling. You tend to take advice from other people you meet
for example we were told to get to Queenstown early and start looking for work
only to arrive here and be told that there won’t be anything for at least
another month, 1 month is a hell of a long time when living on a really small
budget. Even when we arrived here our woofing host told us that now is the best
time to start looking, in hindsight could it be best to make your own decisions
and not ask people for advice and find out for yourself when you get to your
destination?
Despite my moaning I’ve got to
say Queens town and (see pictures below) Wanaka are the pretties places I’ve seen so far in New
Zealand the landscape is amazing so I’d would really love to find work here but
we will have to see!
(This piece is dedicated to Caro
lin and her stinky cat get well soon)
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