Queensland

Thursday 1st  - Friday 2nd June 2017

Finally the day was here to get a bit of winter sun over at the sunny Gold Coast in Australia. We had a chilled out morning picking the car and doing a few bits before driving up to Christchurch to the airport.

The flight was just under 4 hours and I ended up reading half the novel I brought with me in that time... it was supposed to last me the whole week! Jetstar isn't the most luxurious of companies, but it does the job! We landed in Coolangatta at around 5ish there time, it took us a while to find the shuttle to the rental car place but Darragh was super excited to see that there was a tv in their playing Mr Bean!

We then drove down to Turtle Bay Resort, it looks pretty cool! There's s splash zone with water slides and things for the kids as well as three other pools. We grabbed dinner at the restaurant there, I had a pizza, it wasn't he nicest in the world but I was so hungry I didn't care! I was pretty paranoid he whole time about spiders though... luckily I didn't see any bigger than we get in England but I still made sure everything was zipped up! We had a little wander around before heading up to the room for the night - it had been a pretty long day!

The next morning I repacked my bag as I was heading up to Noosa to visit Lily and Sam for the weekend. I walked down to 7eleven to grab a go card, kinda like an Oyster card for Queensland. There was a huge shopping centre on the way, so I had a quick look around. The place was so big that I got a wee bit lost a few times! It was so nice to see a load of shops that I actually recognised!

I then walked back up and grabbed a sandwich for lunch. Wade and Mary dropped me off at the train station I needed to go to, as they were going to a shopping centre nearby. It only cost me just under 11 bucks to get a four hour train... I can't believe how cheap it is for trains here!

Return to Queenstown: Part 4

Wednesday 3rd May 2017

So the plan today was to hike up Ben Lomen before departing each other for Timaru and Melbourne. Unfortunately, we woke up to rain and low cloud so we decided against the idea (mainly because Kieran doesn't have a raincoat). So we decided to just chill around town instead after checking out and leaving our luggage in the luggage room.

Kieran was set on getting some stickers for his laptop, so we had a look around a few souvenir shops and he grabbed a ferg burger for breakfast - with the intent of having as many as possible today before leaving! We headed back to Nomads to chill in the lounge area by the fire.

As the shake was so good yesterday, we went back to cookie time to grab a cookie and shake. They are so good but so sickly! The weather was still pretty awful, so we chilled out and played a bit of pool for a bit until the rain started to clear.

As the weather looked like it might clear up pretty nicely, we decided to walk up the Queenstown hill trail. However, after about fifteen minutes the rain clouds came back in so we decided to go back into town. It wasn't long before we had to go anyway, so it was probably best. 

We met with a couple of people Kieran knew when he was living in New Zealand, and went to fat badger as they had chicken wings for 50 cents. I didn't get any though as I saved myself for my last fergburger! I went for the bun laden which did not disappoint! 

It was pretty sad saying goodbye to Kieran - turns out I probably won't see him until next year which is pretty crazy! But who knows... I've ended up seeing him on the other side of the world so I could end up seeing him anywhere!