I dropped the relocation car off in the morning and pottered around the town.\u00a0 Amongst other places, I went into one of the jade workshops which had an exhibition on the history of jade with a big waterfall thing on a jade boulder.\u00a0 Okay, so I haven’t made it sound all that exciting but it was an okay kind of way to pass some time until my bus left.<\/p>\n
The shuttle bus I got was a lot bumpier than I had expected.\u00a0 Well I guess that could have technically been the roads or the driving but the ride was a lot more hectic than I had imagined.\u00a0 It possibly felt more so as I had bought some thread and decided that making a friendship bracelet was a good idea which I guess technically amplified every bump in the road, or at least me noticing them.\u00a0 The bus stopped at a couple of small towns on the way, which were more like hamlets, and eventually arrived in Franz Josef.<\/p>\n
Once in Franz Josef I checked into a hostel where I was given one of the best welcomes I have ever received by the resident Manager and a girl called Kate who worker there.\u00a0 In the evening I headed to the "Blue Ice" bar where Kate was and chatted to her, a guy called Lance staying at the backpackers’ and a guy called John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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