Christmas in New Zealand was weird. Lovely and wholesome and just what Christmas should be, but weird.
It was mainly weird because it was really really hot. It was about 28 degrees on Christmas day, yet all the Christmas advertising (shop fronts, billboards etc) still had images of snowflakes and father christmas dressed in all his woolly finest. It didn't feel like Christmas as I knew it, but that wasn't actually a bad thing.
Because it felt so different, it didn't leave me with much room to get as homesick as I thought I would. If it had been cold, miserable and wet, I'm sure I would've been craving Christmas UK style a lot more. Shit, I didn't even miss the turkey! Summer salads and barbecued meat were on the menu instead, and it was really rather awesome.
After a family Christmas in Christchurch, we ventured down south, to Lake Wanaka, for our New Years holiday stint.
Wanaka was amazing. Driving down through the Southern Lakes district has to be seen to be believed. Lake Tekapo especially was magnificent, I've never seen water that was that kind of turquoise before.
In Wanaka we ate (too well), drank (too much) and spent most days on the Lake or down the surrounding rivers on a Subaru jetboat (which is way too much fun). I almost felt bad for all my cold British counterparts when I was zoooooming down the Clutha River, basking in glorious sunshine on said jetboat. Then I thought naaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
In all seriousness though, Wanaka was amazing. I highly recommend taking a trip there, and I dare you to try and take in all that scenery in a week.
More updates and pictures and stuff coming. I've made a new years resolution to blog way more often, whether it gets read or not, it makes me feel a hell of a lot more productive about my free time!
Cheers, happy 2010.
Sunday 10 January 2010
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