Holidays

Lake Wanaka

All rugged up for the day

Queenstown, New Zealand.

Have been back from New Zealand for a week now and we are still riding high from an exhilerating holiday. Wow! What a beautiful country, especially the alpine region where we spent most of our time. It couldn't be more different from Tom Price, with its large pristine lakes, huge snowed capped mountains and freezing temperatures. It really is a special part of the world.


We spent eight glorious days in Wanaka and skiied for five days at the Cardrona resort. They provided very good family facilities, such as kindy, ski kindy and ski school for our three children. Our eldest, who turned 8 during our holiday, became quite a proficient skiier and had an "awesome" time. As we guessed, he took to it like a duck to water and shamed me. My husband, who had never skiied before, and I, who had only every skiied very badly twice before, took lessons too. Of course, being all macho and wonderful, my husband just loved it all and pushed himself to the limit. He really did a great job and was able to ski the intermediate (blue) slopes long before me. I am a cautious person, and was happy to stay on the beginners (green) slopes until the last day when I was finally confident enough to tackle one blue slope very slowly. But it has certainly given us a taste for more skiing holidays. So it looks like we may be donning the gloggles, headwear and thermals again in the near future, especially given the northern hemisphere winter will be soon upon us. All we need to do now is find the money to finance it.