Day twenty two

Up early this morning to head to Queenstown. A seven hour drive with nothing but a country music radio station for company (oh yes, along with a gear box which either selects 2000 or 5000 revs and an accelerator which is either on or off we have a radio which tunes between 76.0 and 88.9 – country music FM). In the end though it was a great drive and certainly didn’t feel that long. We stopped first of all in Geraldine and had a cooked breakfast, then stopped at Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki which were amazing. Imagine the pictures you’ve seen of NZ that’s where we were. The lakes were huge and the water was so clear. We drove for a while through the Southern Alps listening to Crowded House on the iPod (I know it’s clichéd but it had to be done – if you don’t know what I’m talking about it’s the song from the “visit NZ” adverts). The iPod died after about twenty minutes so we only had the tuneful sound of whining from the car as music. Oh well; it was still a great drive and we saw more cows and sheep than people. It’s good that we can share the driving; it makes it a lot less tiring. We’ve just got to the hotel – it’s nice; nothing amazing but clean and comfortable and with a mountain out the window.

Love from us xxxxxxxx