My sister Juliet is living in a garage. No joke.
When she told me she was living in a garage, I somehow expected it to be, well, less garage like. Not so! There is one main huge area which is the bedroom cum living room cum kitchen cum dining room cum guest cum ski room cum storage room cum TV room...you get the picture! In typical JJ style, this room looks like a veritable soup of everything she owns - strewn about the place are skis, boots, undies, thermals, an incredible amount of hats, books, alcohol, receipts, half-eaten chocolate bars, bits of rubbish and all number of interesting but potentially trippable overable objects. You have to go out of a locked door to get to the toilet, and the shower looks like its made from a car - the floor is metal. And given JJ is living in a garage, it was a little surprising that her car looked like it was going to fall apart - the exhaust was making those worrying 'may be about to drop off' type noises. But it - and we - survived a very fun nine days of exciting activities!
JJ and Ian picked me up at Queenstown and took me straight out for a much welcome hangover cure at Fergburger - I blame Colette and Aziza for my slightly sorry state on the plane... We drank chili hot chocolate (awesome, you should try it) and wandered around the lake before going on the familiar drive to Wanaka. It was so strange to be back in that part of the world - I'd been over four years earlier with Andrew on our South Island road trip and the memories just came flooding back.
The following days were spent lounging around on the beach, walking up hills, going to Puzzling World and getting lost in the maze, eating muffins, watching the one TV channel, joking around and skiing at Cardrona, where I had been four years ago. Juliet is disgustingly good now, being an instructor and all - I tried not to be too jealous! To be honest, the 'sunbathing' of this title is a little ironic...I was bloody freezing, and couldn't understand it when everyone kept saying "it's warm, isn't it eh?!" in all truthfulness! We went to the funky local cinema twice, where you can sit on sofas, airline chairs and even in a car, to see The Lives Of Others and Die Hard 4 (rock on Brucey!). But a more amazing thing was being taken out to a gorgeous restaurant by my younger sister - this was a turnover for the books but I'm not complaining! I ate the best lamb I've ever tasted, and some tongue-loosening cocktails...
We took a road trip down south (and yes, the car did make it!), stopping at Te Anau on the way. JJ and Ian went off to the Glow Worm Caves, while I ran around the lake. Yes, you did read that correctly. Well, when I say ran round the lake, I don't mean ALL the way round. And I did screw up slightly be eating pizza and drinking wine afterwards but that's not the point!
The next day we headed to Doubtful Sound for an amazing overnight cruise. We set sail like the explorers of old, taking a boat and a bus just to get to the sound. We cruised all over amid spectacular scenery, spotting penguins, bottlenose dolphins, albatross and fur seals. We rammed our faces full of delicious food, went kayaking under waterfalls, gazed at the stars from the deck and couldn't believe our luck when we got an extra large cabin - bingo! JJ was crazy enough to go swimming in the fiord... For a full piece on the cruise including photos see http://www.hereorthere.com/
When she told me she was living in a garage, I somehow expected it to be, well, less garage like. Not so! There is one main huge area which is the bedroom cum living room cum kitchen cum dining room cum guest cum ski room cum storage room cum TV room...you get the picture! In typical JJ style, this room looks like a veritable soup of everything she owns - strewn about the place are skis, boots, undies, thermals, an incredible amount of hats, books, alcohol, receipts, half-eaten chocolate bars, bits of rubbish and all number of interesting but potentially trippable overable objects. You have to go out of a locked door to get to the toilet, and the shower looks like its made from a car - the floor is metal. And given JJ is living in a garage, it was a little surprising that her car looked like it was going to fall apart - the exhaust was making those worrying 'may be about to drop off' type noises. But it - and we - survived a very fun nine days of exciting activities!
JJ and Ian picked me up at Queenstown and took me straight out for a much welcome hangover cure at Fergburger - I blame Colette and Aziza for my slightly sorry state on the plane... We drank chili hot chocolate (awesome, you should try it) and wandered around the lake before going on the familiar drive to Wanaka. It was so strange to be back in that part of the world - I'd been over four years earlier with Andrew on our South Island road trip and the memories just came flooding back.
The following days were spent lounging around on the beach, walking up hills, going to Puzzling World and getting lost in the maze, eating muffins, watching the one TV channel, joking around and skiing at Cardrona, where I had been four years ago. Juliet is disgustingly good now, being an instructor and all - I tried not to be too jealous! To be honest, the 'sunbathing' of this title is a little ironic...I was bloody freezing, and couldn't understand it when everyone kept saying "it's warm, isn't it eh?!" in all truthfulness! We went to the funky local cinema twice, where you can sit on sofas, airline chairs and even in a car, to see The Lives Of Others and Die Hard 4 (rock on Brucey!). But a more amazing thing was being taken out to a gorgeous restaurant by my younger sister - this was a turnover for the books but I'm not complaining! I ate the best lamb I've ever tasted, and some tongue-loosening cocktails...
We took a road trip down south (and yes, the car did make it!), stopping at Te Anau on the way. JJ and Ian went off to the Glow Worm Caves, while I ran around the lake. Yes, you did read that correctly. Well, when I say ran round the lake, I don't mean ALL the way round. And I did screw up slightly be eating pizza and drinking wine afterwards but that's not the point!
The next day we headed to Doubtful Sound for an amazing overnight cruise. We set sail like the explorers of old, taking a boat and a bus just to get to the sound. We cruised all over amid spectacular scenery, spotting penguins, bottlenose dolphins, albatross and fur seals. We rammed our faces full of delicious food, went kayaking under waterfalls, gazed at the stars from the deck and couldn't believe our luck when we got an extra large cabin - bingo! JJ was crazy enough to go swimming in the fiord... For a full piece on the cruise including photos see http://www.hereorthere.com/
4 comments:
That's my babies!
Hee hee. You make the flat sound so much more messy than it was... Honest. :-) xxx
wow i saw your very good travel experience lol...It is really nice ...
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