around NZ
so I spent three or four days in Wellington, which was pretty nice -- nightlife there goes on really late - was out until 5am or so on Saturday night (then went to meet my aunt on Sunday morning for breakfast, incredibly hung over after drinking a couple of litres of red wine).
After that I took the ferry and TranzCoastal train to get me to Christchurch - an incredibly English looking city. I was there for a few days and had a good mix of walking round the city, hiking about on the top of a hill (reached by cable gondola) and heavy drinking with three fun girls (see pic in other post for image of one of them) who I found within minutes of my arrival at the hostel (Base Backpackers, pretty good so I'll probably stay at one of their other branches later on). Also in Christchurch, met up with Yosh who I know from a previous life.
This morning after getting about an hours sleep, after an evening that started off swilling wine in Charlie B's backpackers hostel (which girls had moved to as it is substantially cheaper, in exchange for being in a 38-bed dorm rather than an 10-bed one like we had been in in base), then onto forced wine guzzling (which is what the pic on other post is) then out for a walk to get some chips from 24h fish and chip shop on the other side of the city centre (in which shop some crazy dude had just slit his wrists all over the floor... didn't put me off the chips but I think the english girl and irish dude were not so happy). Threw food at seagulls for a few minutes eating the chips, then ended up in a bar drinking Tiger. (I discovered myself getting irked that they weren't giving me the bottle caps with the beer which I realise is because they used to not give me tiger bottle caps when I was in Allez Boo in Sai Gon, the caps there having prizes concealed underneath)
Then the two I was with got a taxi back to their hostel whilst I walked back to Base Backpackers. Halfway across cathedral square, I was was accosted one of the other chicks I'd been drinking with earlier had somehow ended up hanging out with some accordianist from Charlie B's in the middle of the square.
Drunkenly sat there for 10 mins or so, walked girl all the way back to Charlie Bs, went back to Base, found some dude slumped asleep but upright in front of one of the internet terminals - he toppled over after five mins or so, which was pretty funny. He also had all sorts of felt tip writing all over his face so I think he must have been in this state for some time.
Sent out a bunch of drunk emails and drunk SMS. Hopefully nothing too embarrassing.
Plan is to go for a walk tomorrow day time, and then day after head down to the west coast of the south island and work my way down from there to Queenstown where it will be time for bungy jumping!
After that I took the ferry and TranzCoastal train to get me to Christchurch - an incredibly English looking city. I was there for a few days and had a good mix of walking round the city, hiking about on the top of a hill (reached by cable gondola) and heavy drinking with three fun girls (see pic in other post for image of one of them) who I found within minutes of my arrival at the hostel (Base Backpackers, pretty good so I'll probably stay at one of their other branches later on). Also in Christchurch, met up with Yosh who I know from a previous life.
This morning after getting about an hours sleep, after an evening that started off swilling wine in Charlie B's backpackers hostel (which girls had moved to as it is substantially cheaper, in exchange for being in a 38-bed dorm rather than an 10-bed one like we had been in in base), then onto forced wine guzzling (which is what the pic on other post is) then out for a walk to get some chips from 24h fish and chip shop on the other side of the city centre (in which shop some crazy dude had just slit his wrists all over the floor... didn't put me off the chips but I think the english girl and irish dude were not so happy). Threw food at seagulls for a few minutes eating the chips, then ended up in a bar drinking Tiger. (I discovered myself getting irked that they weren't giving me the bottle caps with the beer which I realise is because they used to not give me tiger bottle caps when I was in Allez Boo in Sai Gon, the caps there having prizes concealed underneath)
Then the two I was with got a taxi back to their hostel whilst I walked back to Base Backpackers. Halfway across cathedral square, I was was accosted one of the other chicks I'd been drinking with earlier had somehow ended up hanging out with some accordianist from Charlie B's in the middle of the square.
Drunkenly sat there for 10 mins or so, walked girl all the way back to Charlie Bs, went back to Base, found some dude slumped asleep but upright in front of one of the internet terminals - he toppled over after five mins or so, which was pretty funny. He also had all sorts of felt tip writing all over his face so I think he must have been in this state for some time.
Sent out a bunch of drunk emails and drunk SMS. Hopefully nothing too embarrassing.
Plan is to go for a walk tomorrow day time, and then day after head down to the west coast of the south island and work my way down from there to Queenstown where it will be time for bungy jumping!
posted by benc at 08:35 GMT
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