Friday, 24 April 2009

Journey to the centre of New Zealand - Nelson, New Zealand

I turn over after hearing Ollie make a move, still pretty tired and look at the clock 12:15!!! Oops didn't quite mean to sleep that long that is what you get when you haven't had a proper sleep for a while I suppose. As you can probably tell we didn't get out of the hostel till about 1.

We sorted out our travel got some lunch then headed to the Botanical gardens, yes we do like Botanical gardens you might have noticed by now! And no not because it is free, it is because we like the flowers and stuff. It wasn't so much of a Botanical garden to me it was more like a large park with a rose garden. After the warmer temperatures of Australia hiding that it was actually autumn the park was very autumnal, with its trees having orange,brown,golden leaves and seeing them scattered about the ground, it made me feel like I was in England. There were also many ducks which were slightly overweight probably due to the amount of tourists. It was funny watching them struggle to swim up the river Avon.

We followed the river Avon to the memorial bridge and to a shop where Ollie's dreams of the perfect Kit-Kat Chunky were dashed as the Caramel variety didn't live up to his high expectations, maybe one day he will find the perfect bar. We then walked around town for a little while before heading back to the hostel.

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