Oh! What A Beauty!

QUEENSTOWN 21 NOVEMBER 2024.

Heavy rain overnight disturbed us both several times. We leave the campsite on the stroke of 10 am. The journey will take over two hours so we stop for coffee in a village called Athol. It’s a strange place with antlers, guns and framed fish on the wall. And, in the fireplace, the biggest pine cones we’ve ever seen!

We arrive in Queenstown at 1pm, early but we are allowed into the room. The receptionist explains that the toilet door is sticking but she’ll send housekeeping to fix it. You’ll be pleased to hear that I’ll spare you the photos and show the views as we approached the town.

We walk down to the town and book a trip on a steamer with afternoon tea for tomorrow. We enjoy a pie and a sandwich in a bakery whilst watching the queue for Ferg Burgers opposite.

Rosie takes on the shops and Paul walks through the gardens and around the bay.

We walk back to the hotel where Rosie cooks the dinner in the kitchen and we eat it in the common room. Rosie talks to a lad from Glasgow who is here looking for work. His last job, in Australia, was at an undertakers.

We go back to the room to find that the door hasn’t been fixed.