Today dawned bright and clear, so looking like glorious weather for my tour and was sat on my balcony having a leisurely breakfast and cup of tea, only to catch the Queentown flyby taking off from Queenstown airport. It was pretty cool, as they flew past the hotel, over the lake to do U turn and head off wherever they were flying to. Not any fighter planes or old warplanes unfortunately, just regular modern passenger planes by the look of them, but it was nice t...

Again, a leisurely lie in - I'm almost getting into holiday mode here - as I only had a couple of hours drive to Queenstown. Had consulted my guidebook the night before and decided to stop off in Arrowtown on the way to Queenstown. Arrowtown is this cute little tourist trap village, that has a wonderfully preserved main street from when it was a gold mining town. It sits on the Arrow River, which is, I believe, the second richest gold bearing river in the world....