Predictably, on the day we had planned to do a long walk it was raining. Joined our fellow guests for breakfast: a delightful, youngJapanese couple who spoke good English and got the camera out to document every course.The eggs Benedict was yummy, and Annelise was pleased with herself as, gulp, she tried the granola and liked it! Small issue to start the day was returning the bikes in the rain. Needless to say, I volunteered to cycle them back - 2 journeys - ...

Day 11 All the Pinot and chocolate the day before, combined with a lot of action movies on a long flight, made me have some scary dreams about sharing a house with a terrorist. Enough! We rose at the crack of 0800 and had a fine breakfast whilst chatting to our hosts. There is obviously a bit of rivalry between Queenstown and Wanaka as they asked why we were bothering to spend so much time there. As Rae fussed over us it soon became clear that Winston's sole c...