I didn't mention that I won the second roumd of trivial pusuit last night. I took myself off to see Mission Impossible 3 at the cinema in the Octagon. I enjoyed it, not a bad way to spend an afternoon. I then went and booked myself onto the railway for tomorrow. I managed to cook nyself a dinner that didn't come out of a tin tonight which is an improvement. There was a bit of a problem trying to get a room for the next couple of nights but I got it sorted and am...

Said goodbye to Sarah. It\'s really strange meeting people and then they are away the next day. I followed the AA man to the garage in the morning. The man from the garage phoned later and said he couldn\'t get a part for the car so he told the rental people to send me a different car. The car rental man wouldn\'t come up to the hostel so Don and Julie, the older Austrailian couple I met in Oamaru, gave me a lift to the garage. The car was waiting there for me an...

I have met two English girls called ALison and Becky who are staying in my dorm. they are both looking for work in Dunedin. Becky is travelling round the world and Alison is a civil servant. She works for the Home Office on parole board hearings which is really interestingand she has a degree in criminology so knows all about serial killers. I took Becky into town on a supermarket run which is one the the best reasons for having a car. You don't have to walk up r...

I haven't described Hogwartz yet. It is a former bishops house with wooden floors, high ceilings and huge rooms. It definately has a lot of character. i walked into town and went to the Art gallery for a bit of culture. I went on the Wildlife Tour in the afternoon. The bus took us out onto the Otago Peninsula to the albatross colony but there were none to be seen. We then had to walk through private farmland down to a beach to see Yellow-eyed penguins. We got rea...

Set off from Oamaru first thing, stopping at the Moeraki boulders en route. I think I got a couple of good pictures of them though they really aren't that impressive. I almost made it to the hostel when the car died. Two Kiwi guys were coming down the street and pushed me round the corner to the gates of the hostel. The hostel owner Gilbert had a look at the car and suspected the clutch had burnt out so I was really lucky to have made it that far. I had to call t...