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Just typed a long blog entry and lost it, so here's an abridged version.
Another day of gorgeous scenery - the weather was horrible, so I can only imagine what the views of the lakes would be like on a clear day.
Was starting to stress a bit about how little time I've got - in the end, I've decided to take a day coach trip tomorrow to Milford Sound, which sounds a bit daft when I'm paying for a hire car, but it gives me a day off driving (about 8 hours round trip at a guess), means I can hopefully do more sightseeing on the way back to the airport, and means I spend tomorrow night at a hotel which I'm 99% sure has the match on.
I can't believe I'm on the other side of the world and trying to watch this match - it's so not going to be worth it :-(
Had a decent meal at a bar called the Hard Antler last night - I went into the public bar after I'd finished and say how it got its name. There were literally dozens of antlers, skulls and heads hanging from the walls and roof beams. Nice. The locals didn't seem to want to talk to me - someone had an American fiancee who must have fulfilled the foreigner quota - so I wandered over to a stack of magazines. The top one was called something like 'NZ Hunter' - it was basically gun and kill porn. I drank up and made sure not to start any arguments on the way out.
I still can't work out the time difference - the match is on 'live' at 3am tomorrow but I thought it should be on at 2? I might text someone to see whether it's started and whether I'm watching it on a delay.
The first draft of this post was way better. Never mind - bring on Milford Sound and bring on the Villa! Come on Toon!
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