We decided to spend the next night at Wanaka which is a pretty little town on a lake. We set the sat nav from Te Aanu and noticed that the road did look a bit bendy on the picture. The road turned out to be one of the highest passable in NZ (over the Cardrona Range). Climbing up the steep hairpinned bends with the view of Queenstown becomming smaller below was a little hair raising in the van. When a jumbo flew past at the same level as us we knew we were up pretty high!!. Anyway we managed to survive the journey.
We got a text from back home telling us to look up some old friends of Ruths Dad called John and Helen who happened to live in Wanaka and who emigrated to NZ 25 years ago. The next morning we found them and after the initial shock of realising who we were, we spent a good hour over a cup of tea. We worked out that Ruth had not seen them for about 30 years (still recognised their faces though!).
We got a text from back home telling us to look up some old friends of Ruths Dad called John and Helen who happened to live in Wanaka and who emigrated to NZ 25 years ago. The next morning we found them and after the initial shock of realising who we were, we spent a good hour over a cup of tea. We worked out that Ruth had not seen them for about 30 years (still recognised their faces though!).
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| John and Helen outside their home in Wanaka |
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