Good not to have to hit the road this morning. Did laundry and wrote 2 blogs, caught up on email. Kit has wonderful news, her son is getting married in September.
Walked into town (Queenstown) ate lunch at Tatlers. Wonderful special of warm veg salad with salmon. $12.00, cheap for these parts.
Walked a fairly steep climb to the gondolas taking a very steep climb up the peak. ($25.00 a pop) A wonderful view of Lake Wakatipu. Has developed a lot since I was here 15 years ago. There’s a bungy jump site and a luge track. Someone told us it was 3 degrees centigrade. We were rugged up pretty well.
Walked back to Tatlers for coffee and hot chocolate. Kit’s didn’t touch the sides. Fascinated by the merino/possum mix scarves and gloves as we window shopped. I went from store to store using the tester samples for hand creams every where I went. My hands are so dry, they suck up the moisturiser in seconds.
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| TSS Earnslaw. |
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| Walter Peak Homestead. |
Back at the Copthorne Resort changed for dinner at Walter Peak High country Farm, accessed via a coal steamer the TSS Earnslaw. The homestead is very elegant, the buffet dinner excellent. I had tender roast beef, sticky date pudding, lemon meringue pie. We watched a sheepdog herding some sheep and the farmer shearing a sheep. High country sheep have tough coarse fur.
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| Chandelier at Walter Peak Homestead. |
On the trip back we had a rip roaring sing song round the piano.
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