Spring is offically here! We have only got one week left to go at the Cardrona Hotel as the winter season has come to an end and we don't know whether to be happy or sad about it? I think we will really miss Wanaka and the people we have met and definately Daniel but we are excited about getting back on the road and not having to work! Last Wednesday, the hotel was really quiet. Quiet as in we had no customers and no house guests so we shut up at 6pm and went...

Skiing (30th July) Had our first skiing lesson (ever!) at Cardrona about four weeks ago now and we had such a cool day. The weather wasn't as good as we had hoped it might be, it was a bit overcast but i think we were concentrating more on not falling over than the view anyway! We went up early in the morning with Rach, Elaine and Hayley (the girls that we work with), oh and a load of second hand skiing equipment that we had begged for, borrowed and stolen! Our ...

We have been working at the Cardrona Hotel for four weeks now and we are really enjoying it! It has to be the easiest, most laid back hospitality job that we have ever worked! For the last two weeks work has been really busy as the kids have been on holiday, yet nobody gets streesed and the shift never seems to be out of control. There are a select few arogant people (normally Aucklanders) who seem to think they deserve undivided attention because they have a stu...

And so we are back in Wanaka! It is sooo pretty here compared to Christchurch despite the cold! The hotel is on the Crown Range road about 20 minutes from Wanaka and 40 minutes from Queenstown. We had to be at The Cardrona for 8.30am the next morning and so we decided to get a cabin instead of sleeping in the van just because it would be warmer! When we arrived at the hotel the next morning we were told that they had been expecting us last night! Ooops. (Not to w...