As we had 4 nights before coming back to Dunedin Holiday Park we decided to spend 2 nights at a cheap DOC site up near Oamaru, and then 2 nights at a powered site on the Otago Peninsular back in Dunedin. After booking the powered site for later in the week, we headed into Dunedin and parked up where we had the day before, for foree. We yet again visited the library to use the computers, and spent a while looking at our finances - we should last until the end of o...

Well...last night wasn't as cold as the night before - maybe the beer helped to warm us up, plus we slept with the towels on top of the duvet to try and keep a bit more heat in! After a bit of a lie-in, we drove into town towards what we'd been told was an area with free parking. As usual, we drove round for ages, not sure where we could park, although there were lots of cars on the streets around the industrial estate we were in! We eventually found a place nea...

After a FREEZING cold night in the van I got up at 8am to go to the toilet adn found that it was warmer outside! I decided to have a shower early to beat the rush...but it seems that was everyone elses idea too! After a few hours reading the paper and writing postcards, we set off for town on the shuttle bus from the site. Our Speight's brewery tour was booked for 12:30 so we headed there. The tour was a bit longer, and more informative than the Tui brewery tour...

This morning we waved goodbye to our new English friends and the campsite owner as we left and headed into Oamaru. We parked up and went to use the free internet in the library, before buying some postcards. Then we set off for Dunedin and the rugby! We arrived at the campsite just after 3pm. Before that we drove into Dunedin town for a quick look around. We found the Octagon - the centre of town with lots of bars and restaurants and went to the I-Site where we ...

We decided to stay another night at Waitaki Waters Holiday Park as it was a nice site and so we could get the money to buy the England tickets from the couple, who were also staying another night. We went to the office to pay for tonight and the owner gave us some very useful information about Oamaru, where we were heading for the day. He showed us where we could park for free, and told us not to pay the $25 each to see the penguins, just hand around in the carpa...