Queenstown - New Zealand

We arrived in NZ into Queenstown on the 30th May, flying into the country was class the scenery itself was stunning and to be honest we were looking forward to some cooler weather and seeing the snow everywhere was super..

It was just like arriving into a snow resort for skiing, small class wee alpine villages full of people with warm clothes on and wooly hats and scarves..we booked into our hostel and headed straight out, the shops were cool and of course shopping was a must for hats and jumpers and long sleeved tops... Ger even bought a class kiwi bird thing in a designer shop!

There is loads to do from bungy jumps to skydives and rafting unfortunately though the weather was so wintery a lot of these activities had been postponed due to the visibility and bad weather - we thought it was class though..
We headed up the famous Queenstown Cable car to see if we could see anything anyhow but to no avail! So instead we bought the lord of the rings book to check out all the scene locations and made a decision to rent a campervan and drive around the 2 islands instead of getting the bus..

We booked an EZY CRUIZA campervan - basically a toyota hiace van with a raised ceiling and red curtains!! Class! it was $37.50 a day and we were well excited..

On our last night in Queenstown we headed to a restaurant that the Lord of the rings cast used to go to called the Cow, fab place that does great pizza and beer and spent the meal chatting to a couple from Christchurch - Catherine and Neville, who invited us to come stay oin their house when we made it up there...we left tipsy and met our friend from Oz, Jess and headed to the irish Pog Mo thon bar and stayed there til 3 in the morning teaching irish dancing to the locals - Suzi, Tosh and the rest of the motor rally and angling members clubs that were out for a quiet drink.. and singing with Charlie the Maori entertainer!

So again with very sore heads we checked out the next morning to go and pickup our van and start our journey south - first stop Milford Sound...