Month: February 2019

Here’s a better picture if the Cromwell fruit –

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Our last full day so we headed for –

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Grand views –

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This is looking towards Mount Cook in the distance –

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Some nice properties along the edge of the course –

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A small person played very well and won!!!!

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Off to Arrowtown for our last night – An old gold mining settlement –

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Took this photo inside the bar we had tea at and everyone seems to have lost their heads –

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Nice motel –

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There were hundreds of bees on the lavender –

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An amazing sewing and patchwork shop –

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Memories of the UK –

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Now if I don’t get a chance to upload any photos tomorrow of Emirates lounged /food /etc see you all back in the UK.

Goodbye NZ – it’s been amazing –

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xx🐾

Ok. A long long drive from Dunedin to Cromwell. Seemed to take for hours but it was only 3. Stopped for lunch by this lovely gorge –

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So cool and refreshing –

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Then passed this structure – not sure what it entails. Terrace of lot of wire encased boulders –

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Along to the outskirts of Cromwell – our destination for today –

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Just in case you loose your bearings –

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Here we are in Cromwell famed for its fruit –

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Town centre rather tranquil –

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Then here’s a shot of our room –

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That has a lovely patio –

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That leads right onto the golf course –

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Is this a super charged BBQ – see the gas line in –

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Lamb steaks were great –

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Golf tomorrow!!!!

It was 27*C at 2am. Pleased to say it’s cooler now!!!

Off to the railway station –

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For a day out on the –

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Very comfortable 1930’s wooden carriage –

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Started off with lowland views –

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And passed Sue the sheepdog statue who commemorates all collies who have worked the mountains –

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We pass over some spectacular viaducts en route –

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With vertical views down into the gorge –

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The scenery becomes quite rugged as we climb –

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The tunnels are only just wide enough –

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At the summit –

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Are some opportunists locals selling their wares –

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And not a lot to see –

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Except for a Yellowhammer in full song –

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And our engine moving to the other end of the train for our descent –

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Views on the way back down we’re just as good –

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With a couple of goats hanging onto the scree –

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While we trundled on –

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Towards the plains –

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Where there is a lot of racehorse breeding –

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A very good day out and into the town for tea.