It was a lovely sunny morning when we awoke and looking out of the Hotel window we could see the mountains in the background.
We packed up the bags and repacked the car and headed off towards
There was not a lot of snow on Mount Cook but against the lake it looked quite magical.We departed from there to Lake Tekapo and from there the Mount Cook range of mountains was clearly visible and we would have loved to take an aeroplane flight over the mountains but it is expensive and perhaps even more important, not a lot of snow. This will have to wait until another time when perhaps we will visit in the winter time.
The route to Fairlie took us through
The route from Fairlie took us through Geraldine to Ashburton where we stopped at the local Warehouse Shop to see if they sold blankets which they did not, unfortunately, and so we bought a cheap duvet should it get very cold again.
We arrived in
We walked down to the local Mall and tried to have a Pizza at Pizza Hut but after waiting for almost forty minutes when they could not produce two small Pizzas’ after two strong discussions with them we walked out.
Dinner that night consisted of an ice cream at the local Hoyts Cinema where we had booked to see the new Tom Cruise file called Valckerie which we both enjoyed very much. The rest of the cast was mainly English actors playing zee Germans and it revolves about the one attempt of many to kill Hitler. It would appear that they tried over twenty times to kill him but without success. Says a lot about their military that they could kill one single little German/Austrian mad man painter.
We walked back to our little hut which is about £ 19.00 per night. It has two beds a table and chairs but you use the joint kitchen and loo and washing facilities. All facilities were very clean.
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