Dunedin

Dunedin was our last big town stop before Christchurch. The heritage of the town is very Scottish, this is obvious in the architecture, even the name Dunedin is the Gaelic word for Edinburgh. It seemed like a really nice town with quite a bit to do, so we decided to stay 2 nights!

We kicked off our first day with a look round the shops and a visit to Cadbury World and the Speights brewery! Now I know what your thinking, why would two people from Britain, the home of Cadburys, go to the factory in New Zealand?! Well to put it simply it was cheap and they gave away loads of free chocolate! It was quite interesting though, although the Speights factory was even better! The guide was great and we rounded off the tour in the free bar trying as many different types of Speights ales and beers as we could in the time it took to play us the Speight adverts. The brainwashing worked and we now both love Speights, all a bit pointless though as they don't export!!!

We treated ourselves to a meal out at an all you could eat Asian restaurant! We totally stuffed ourselves and rolled back to the van!

With the realisation of how cold Japan is going to be we thought we better buy some warmer clothes! We're finding it pretty cold in New Zealand so the 10degrees in Japan is going to be painful!! After a pretty unsuccessful afternoon we went see the penguins on Otago Peninsula but some stupid tourists were walking along the beach, so there was no chance of the penguins coming ashore! Some people are so stupid!!

We were up and off early the next morning to head to Akaroa. Before leaving Dunedin we stopped off to climb the Guinness Book of Records steepest street (35% at its steepest point). Emma managed to walk up and down only to hurt her foot on the flat bit (-anything to get out of driving!). We also stopped at 'shag point' to see some shags, more seals and the Moeraki Boulders later on.