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Gill's Travels!!
Hey guys!!!
Its been a while but been very hectic!! since leaving Queenstown we've been road tripping it up the West Coast (very beautiful) but been ruffin' it a bit!! so no internet!
well can't even think where to start! its been comedy really!
we headed up Route 6 (what we thought was Route 6!) The road turned to dirt track but we thought .. this is pretty... then we passed through fields with sheep and cows in the road... still kept going, hadn't seen any cars for a while... la lal a... then we went through a water fort..kept going ... after about hour and half started to get little curious so flagged down passing truck.. yeh we where on a dirt track which led... NO WHERE!!! ops!
anyway back on the right track!!... we headed to a place called Wanaka! Excellent! name!!
it was a cute little town and we stopped a night there.
Then we headed to Fox Glacier.... however... after the error from the day before.. we kinda forgot to assess the whole petrol situation!
Rookie mistake... we got to the middle of nowhere and realised actually yeh.. we were on the red! so after asking two very nice (possibly gay) gentlemen and realising there was no gas station for 125km the panic set it!!
to cut story short... the men followed us in their car in case we ran out but SOMEHOW we made it to the glacier.. once again.. Grandma - the legand that she is - did us proud!
The glacier was a lot of fun. we hiked for 4 1/2 hours (impressed daddy?!) with comedy boots and sticks up a very steep cliff edge where you had to hold onto a metal cable for dear life!
If anyones seen Return of the King.. the bit where Gollum leads Sam and Frodo up steps of Moordor to the spider at the top... yeh steps where not to dissimilar to that!
The glaciers were gorgeous though. was lovely up there until I put my head in a freezing cold pool of water at the top of glacier... very very cold! ... what.. the guide told me to.. he had a axe!!!!
after leaving there we headed to Franz Joseph Glacier which was pretty... but we prefered Fox!
Then we went to WestPort (if anyones seen a Ledge of Gentlemen - local ppl?) anyway it was dive of New Zealand ( inbreads and everyone seemed to be fat)! anyway we went on a horse treck here which was lots of fun... however.... obvioulsy not like the ones back in England...
Nikki is a bit of a pro, but me and Nosh had never ridden before.. so i get the biggest horse! Called Jo which was amusing (jo is nosh's bloke!)
and nosh had Lady.. who was not! she was a tad moody!!
so we set off and was fab until we started to trot .. all i heard from behind was nosh screeming ' get me offfffff... i don't likkkkkkeee iitttt'!!!
turned around and nosh is half falling off Lady with helmet over her eyes! was v amusing!
until..... we kantered which the first few times was wikid (Nosh sat those ones out) but on the last go my ex race horse decided that he wanted to over take Nikkis horse ... so pretty much galluping along the beach Nikkis horse deceided to stop... and basically .. mine didn't! So poor little me was thrown to the floor!!! don't worry though.. im fine.. didn't really know what was happening till i was lying under Jo!!!!
twas ok though! just went and grabbed him and got back on .. can't say im not a trooper!!
so all in all .. been a comedy few days!
oh and the girl leading out treck was sweet and couple of days before she saw the horse that was Shadowfax in L of the R's .. she showed us the photos and they were wikid!
well hope that your all well... missing you all
mum i will try and ring soon...
phil - very sorry about the whole forgetting your birthday situation!! though in our defense... thought it was a wednesday other day then found out it was saturday!!!
hugs all round
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