Back and forth

In Wanaka we found Lars again as well as the Israeli-German duo, Uri and Simon. We spent the next couple of days climbing mountains, eating ice cream and relaxing by the beautiful eponymous lake. On the advice of a Colombian runner, we transferred ourselves to the Luggate campsite situated on a cricket pitch with free hot showers!

Roy's Peak; Bannockburn festival; Mt Difficulty winery

 The first ride of the next day was from an Auckland lawyer by the name of Richard. After some lovely conversation and an historic tour of the town of Cromwell, Richard took us wine tasting in the Central Otago. Unable to go to his winery of choice, we ended up at Mt. Difficulty where I experienced the most expensive wine I'd ever tasted. My favourite was the 2013 Sauvignon Blanc. By the afternoon, we made it to Queenstown where we ended up spending $25 each to pitch our tents. Fortunately this gross expenditure was worth it as we met Immy - a welsh girl I'd met in Napier a few months before who invited us to a festival the next day in Bannockburn - back the direction we'd just come from. There were less than 1000 people there the whole day and our party of around ten were the only non kiwis. I stayed there all night and the awesome New Zealand policemen gave me a ride back to the campsite!

That seems like a good stopping point...