First day was a quiet one, but I’m happy with how I spent it; Figured out how to get to the waterfront, which in classic New Zealand style is mostly commercial & industrial, with the added bonus of being cut off by the railway lines.
Located where the bus to the next place leaves from, wandered around the centre of the city, avoided getting rained on too badly, and generally had a nice time doing nothing of any great consequence. It’s a lot colder this evening than it was last evening.
I’m also glad that I slightly remade the bed in my hostel room, because it really didn’t need as much of the covers tucked under the end of the mattress as that; Indeed, those covers are far more use on top of the mattress, so that my shoulders are actually covered by the covers.
Honestly, it’s like they’re trying to short-sheet the bed but don’t quite know how to do it.
Following on from the “bus to the next place” comment above; Something I noticed when travelling around the UK last year is that I don’t really like not knowing where the next place is. I don’t want to plan out the whole trip, but I also don’t want to be feeling anxious about it the whole time, so I’m trying something where I’ll lock in the next place, if I know what it’ll be, as soon as I can, so that hopefully I know where I’ll be and can calm down about it.
In this case it’s Invercargill, with a plan to visit Stewart Island / Rakiura for a few days, because why go all that way for a day-trip?
Day two was a little more structured, in that I went to the Otago Settlers Museum, which ate up a fair chunk of time and was worth the visit.
Though I did need to deploy the earplugs on one occasion, not because of the noise from patrons, but because an interpretation/welcome display right at the start was so loud that I couldn’t read the various panels; Kept losing concentration thanks to the booming soundtrack.
Cathedral, because I thought it looked nice with the blue sky behind it.
Railway Station, which I wandered through yesterday but didn’t photograph because of crappy weather. They do run some trains from there, of a tourist nature.
View from the upstairs kitchen in the hostel.
I also booked the “overseas” bit of this thing, or at least the “go there and come back again” part, so … That’s an achievement?