We were excited to travel to Dunedin as it was our first city since Christchurch however our arrival got off to a slight hitch, as there was no freedom campsites nor was there any D.O.C sites(not sure what it stands for at a guess - Department of Conservation?) which only charge a small fee. With this news we parked up and whilst Angie got to stay in the camper (to make sure we didn't get any tickets for not paying the pay and display) Antonio headed out on foot to canvas the motels to see if anyone would let us stay in their car parks for a small fee or exchange for some cleaning. He found a place where we could stay for free but it was only for one night. Following this he then found a place at the Alhambra Oaks, where a lovely man called Alan said we could stay for free for as long as we wanted. On top of this he did our laundry, allowed us to fill our water tank every day in the camper and even have showers in the motel when a rooms was free. We were really lucky to meet Alan as he offered us all of this and did not want any money or work in return, he just did it out of the kindness of his heart.

Most days in Dunedin we headed to the library for an hour or two as there was free internet and we could also charge up all our electrical gadgets to use that evening or the next day. On our first full day in Dunedin we began to checking out some of the city sights first off visiting the clock tower at Otago Uni. We then visited the first church, town hall, St Pauls Cathedral and many more historic buildings in and around the city centre for Angie to photograph (for inspiration!). The next day we visited the Railway station (New Zealand's most photographed building, and one of the top 200 buildings to see in the world!), inside of which is the Sports hall of fame. Antonio went in whilst Angie sat outside reading her book listening to a girl busking with a guitar. Roles were reversed when we went to the art gallery as Angie went snap happy and Antonio stayed outside on the computers. We also visited the Otago settler's museum however, it was under construction and only a small part was open. We still learnt all about the Scotts who came over and created "The New Edinburgh". The highlight during our time in Dunedin had to be our visit to the Cadbury's factory, a fun day filled with free (kind of free but we had to pay an entrance fee) chocolate.

After spending a day at a camp site we went back to Alan's motel for another 5 nights. In the days we visited the Botanical gardens a few times and also the Otago museum, which was running a special feature called your face. We took pictures of our faces and going through the exhibition got to change our faces, through ageing, using symmetry and even mixing your face with others. We mixed our faces and the outcome was frightening (let's just say we think we'll adopt if that's what our kids would look like!). On our final day staying at the motel we visited both St Kilda and St Clair's beach but the wind decided to pick up making it way too cold to go and sunbathe. We instead had lunch from the warmth of our camper overlooking the beach. We then went to visit Baldwin Street (Officially the steepest street in the world!) and walked up to the top. We met a guy up there who we chatted to for a while and it turns out he has the world record for running up and down this street the most (Crazy man!). On our last night at Alan's we very nearly ran out of power as the lights began to dim so before moving on we went back to the campsite for one night to recharge.