South Island Childhood Revisited Road~Trip 2012

Our Sisterly Childhood~Revisited South Island RoadTrip ~ 2012

Despite sending out over 20 Itineraries

 there are those of you who do not know where we are going ~

so here it is ~

  

5 February ~ Fly Auckland/Queenstown ~ where we visited as kids all of our childhood holidays & also went every year on my birthday, with the promise of visiting the Queenstown Strawberry Gardens, but never, ever got there, because all parents & accompanying friends shouted in the

 local pubs, for my birthday! 

We kids used to play in/around cars outside the pubs, but always could look forward to Dad coming out with raspberry cordial & lemonade & enough money to get local fish & chips.

6 Feb NZ Waitangi Day ~ 13 or 14 hour BBQ bus~tour to Milford Sound (where we never ever got to go through to, because our parents had a few drinks & family gourmet lunch in the Miners' Cave at entrance to one~way Homer Tunnel!) 

 Actually get to go through tunnel, do Milford Scenic Cruise, bush walk, BBQ etc.

7 Feb ~ pick up rental car & drive to Invercargill (where we were born & spent out younger years) & stay with cousins for family reunions etc).  Also visit many places we remember as kids ~ we have not been back together for over 48 years!

8,9 Feb ~ reminisce in Invercargill & also have Southland 'tea at our families' engineering workplace ~ very special to us.

10 Feb ~ drive to Alexandra (where I was once married & where my sister lived for her early teenage years), it is here we pay homage to our Parents' grave, meet a cousin & have Otago 'tea, then stay B & B up on hill overlooking Alex.

11 Feb ~ drive to Wanaka & have set up a tasting  session at Sam Neill's vineyard along the way!  Stay Wanakabakpaka!

12,13 Feb ~ drive Arrowtown (where we holidayed most of our childhood & School holidays ~ always in pubs!), stay in ex~police station renovated hotel in Main Street. 

Hope that police station is licensed, don't want illegal drinking going on in there!

14 Feb ~ drive at our whim anywhere, as have extended our stay & now fly out of Queenstown 17th. 

I may Blog along the way, but will most probably just savour each & every moment with my sister.      Allison x  

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