Good news - I woke up after dozing off at about 0500 feeling far more human. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is 2300 and this internet place is going to throw me out, so will finish this card tomorrow. OK, I'm back. Where was I? Oh yes - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nic and I drove out of town and headed for Milford Sound in the Fiordland National Park As we got nearer the weather changed and the rain a...

In Dunedin I had managed to purchase a very cheesy tape from 1989 (I was in the upper 6th form at that time) and I played it about 5 times on the drive. It was an aural delight with tunes by such fab bands as Soul II Soul, Milli (not singing at all) Vanilli, Black Box, Depeche Mode and Betty Boop. My apologies to those of you who are too old, or too young for that matter, to have even heard of these poptastic sounds. For the rest of you - how old do you feel?!...

After leaving the internet place without the snoring man seeing me I had a wander around Dunedin. The highlight in my opinion - Starbucks - sad, yes, but it's been a while. One grande skimmed latte with an extra shot of espresso and vanilla later and I was on my way. Not too much to the main street - they seem to be pretty similar the world over in Westernised countries, but stopped for a while to read up in the Lonely Planet and decide where to head next. ...

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...