When we woke up today I went outside and checked out the views we had been unable to see the night before, only to find 2 sheep lying around by the car looking very unconcerned by our presence. The drive continued along the Southern Scenic road and we stopped at Nugget Point, Roaring Bay and Kata Point en route to Dunedin. As we were driving into town everything looked remarkably shut, despite it being a Monday - odd. It turned out to be a local bank...

OH MY GOD - I just had to let you know about my night last night. Bed at a reasonable time and then one of the other people in the room came in and promptly kept me awake nearly all night. I have heard bad snoring, but this was something else. At least with regular snoring there is something kind of rhythmic to it. I'm not sure if this bloke suffered from sleep apnia (right term?) where you actually stop breathing whilst you sleep. Basically he would be ...

Having had my bran flakes and sat by the water's edge for a coffee, I headed out of Wanaka, south along the scenic no 89 road. This road is extremely windy and passes up over Crown Peak at 1729m, before heading back down towards Queenstown. En route I passed through Cardrona, not renowned for much, except it's bra fence. Yes, I have typed that correctly - bra fence. Not sure how or why it started, but there is a stretch of metal fence about 500m long which ha...