Day 68 - Exploring Dunedin (Saturday 15th January)

After a fair few drinks last night, Chaggie rose at around 10.30 and planned to head off to the Albatross Coloney on the Otago Peninsula situated about half an hours drive out of Dunedin.

We set off at around 11.30 and before heading to the peninsula, we drove around the centre of Dunedin. Dunedin is a typically British city and the whole lay out is exactly the same as Edinburgh in Scotland, as Dunedin (Dùn Èideann) is the Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh. See, we do educate as well as entertain on this blog!

We took a few photos of some eye catching monuments and buildings that Dunedin possesses. It's lay out reminded Chaggie a lot of home, with streets that were slightly smaller and buildings that you can associate within the UK. We hung around the city for about half an hour before heading off to the peninsula.

We arrived at the peninsula just before 13.00 after taking some superb photos of Dunedin from the hill side that looks over it. We knew that doing the Albatross tour would cost a fair bit of money, so we decided to try our luck to see if we could spot any around the car park and area surrounding the Albatross centre. Our luck was out. However, we did see Seals swimming in the sea at the bottom of the cliff face but we had already swam with Seals so that was old news. Just kidding, we've got plenty of time for seals.

We stayed at the Albatross centre for lunch, Chino had a burger and Staggie had lamb pie - excellent (or as kiwis pronounce it...eegcellent)! It seems pies aren't that popular over hear but they seem to always be in restaurants, oh well.

We set off back to Helen and Matt's at around 14.00 and got back at around half past. We spent the rest of the afternoon on the internet and also watching New Zealand vs Pakistan in the cricket with Matt. After that, we headed out for a meal with Helen, Matt and some of their friends. We finally decided to have Malaysian, after finding out the Japanese restaurant first intended was closed! Chaggie had Korma Curry, slighty different to Indian Korma, it didn't have as much flavour, well, it didn't taste like Indian Korma at all (Western Indian Korma's that is)! Oh well, it was still good.

After the Malaysian we headed to a Pool Bar to play... well Pool. Chaggie joined forces against the rest of the clan, and were un-beaten in 3 games with Chino certainly on form, we ended up losing the 4th.. some how!! Nevermind.

As we were heading off to Queenstown tomorrow, this was our only full day in Dunedin but we were impressed with the City and would recommend anyone who is coming to NZ to go and take a look at it, especially if you are from Edinburgh or have been there before!

Chaggie x