On the Thursday we got up and headed towards Hanmer, one of the sites in New Zealand with natural goethermic springs.\u00a0 I was feeling slightly miserable as I was still thinking about the incident in Wanaka, the subsequent phone call and I also discovered a weird lump in my mouth.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure that this was stress related but it made me feel even more glum.<\/p>\n
En route to Hanmer we stopped at "the best bloody gift shop for miles" and to be fair it was pretty amazing.\u00a0 It was a serious grotto with wares hanging from the ceilings, on the floor and adorning the walls.\u00a0 There was also an awesome cafe on site where we had the most amazing lunch.\u00a0 We carried on and stopped at the "boulder rocks" which were spherical rocks by the sea.\u00a0 They were very strange actually, almost perfect spheres just sat on the sand.<\/p>\n
As we carried on our way we stopped at "Warehouse" to buy cheap C.D.s.\u00a0 As Lance pulled out of a turning I asked if the Police car behind was for us and it turned out it was.\u00a0 Rather nicely he then received a $150 fine for not stopping at a stop light.\u00a0 He was going crazily slowly but technically didn’t actually stop.\u00a0 Personally I think he may have been let off his fine if he hadn’t have given the explanation of, "I wasn’t paying attention"!<\/p>\n
When we arrived in Hanmer we checked into a rather nice motel, well as I said I was feeling sorry for myself, and then headed out into town.\u00a0 The town was quite small and there only appeared to be one bar open.\u00a0 We chatted to a couple of locals who turned out to be, well weird to be honest, who seemed to like doing very bad English accents to me as well as citing every English stereotype they knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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