Back to Dunedin....for a few days

So i have arrived back in Dunedin for a few days R&R to recover from the stress of hosting Dolans. Was a bit of a nightmare getting here but it all turned out in the end. Went to book a bus ticket this morning (how farsighted of me) except it turned out the bus was booked out. So pretty much i was stuck in Queenstown for another night without accomodation. Mightly irked i was talking to yerone from the bus company on the phone and she said that if i could get to a town called Cromwell, around an hour away then the bus might have emptied by then. So buses to Cromwell, dont be so silly. I had to swallow my pride and actually hitchhike. Was out i the freezing cold for nearly twenty minutes before i got a lift from a nice fello called Julien from Switzerland. Offered to pay him for some petrol but he refused. Very nice of him.

Of course that was not the end of my troubles. Managed to book the ticket for the bus but was three hours early, gave myself a little too much time to catch a lift. So luckily i found a library, with a graphic novel stand. So next time i look at my watch its five minutes past the bus departure. Picking up my ridiculously heavy rucksack i ran up and thankfully got the bus. Even though i broke two eggs that were in my bag, who would have thought they were so fragile. Now since i started staying in the hellhostel in Queenstown, Downtown Backpackers tell your friends to avoid it, i have started developing pneumonia. Well a sore throat and cough anyway. So i stopped int o a pharmacy before i left and bought some cough syrup. Unfortunately i did not have a spoon to measure it so i just took a few chugs from the bottle on the bus and hopped for the best. THink i might have ODed on it though, felt pretty sick the whole way down and pretty drowsy. The cough went away though. In one of my lucid moment on the bus did see something i thought was odd though. THis old woman got on a little after the first stop and the only place for her to sit was beside this teenage fello. The odd thing was they started talking and were at it for the entire 4 hour trip. Did not catch what they were talking about but it seemed quite animated, i think he gave her his number at the end.

So i am back in Central Backpackers until Monday when i head back to Queenstown to stay in the Black Sheep for another 2 weeks, which will be pretty nice. Its weird how homely this place feels, i would not mind hanging around here indefnately to be honest. The danger of a place being too comfortable. I even got a pure cheap rate in the hostel, works out at 15 dollars a night. The perks of being friends with the boss. Just going to get some beer and DVDs now and will just bum around for a few days. I told Richard, the owner, to get tickets to Harry Potter so 4 of us are heading to that on Sunday, should be a lorra fun.

So i am