The Final Few Days Of Holiday

After Arrowtown we drove on once more to Roxborough to check out the place I am going to be living for the next few months! Met John and Patt Kerr (The people who own the commercial hostel I'll be staying in) and they're lovely. John has already offered to teach me to drive... I call that a result. Had the grand tour of the hostel and it's mahussive. Pool table, internet, tv, TWO pianos, bar... what more could I need? I'm the only person from the UK who will be staying there at the moment so I intend to represent the best I can!

We spent the night there before moving on to Gore (where we had been told nothing ever happens.... I can see what they meant..) and met all my dad's old friends from the area as he had a very sophisticated tea party thrown in his honour. Nice. It was kinda like going for tea at your grandparents except they weren't your grandparents and there was more of them. Lost count of how many times I experienced the: "Do you remember me?", "Um...no?", "Well you WERE very little at the time" - conversation. Funtimes. But seriously it was a nice afternoon and we had the novelty of eating mutton that was raised and killed on their farm so was packed with flavour... tasty. (They also do the BEST chicken here...I'll try and bring some back for ya Jake =P)

The next couple of days were filled with meeting up with old friends of my dad who owned and worked various farms, and I'm glad to say they very much fitted my stereotypical idea of farmers. met lots of people, received plenty of numbers and now have places I can stay all over New Zealand if I wish. It is indeed WHO you know not what you know.


P.S. There aren't very many photos from these days so I just threw in a couple of randoms, for your entertainment.