Pretty much everyone we had spoke to was saying, "you will love it when you get down south, the scenery is amazing", its really nice but looks exactly the same as Scotland, loads of hills and mountains, lakes etc.
Our first stop in the South island was Marlborough a world famous wine region so needless to say we stopped in at a good few, I did most of the tastings with Les @ the wheel.
Further down the south island we did a hike on Franz Josef glacier, was amazing this huge lump of ice in the middle of nowhere, walking through loads of ice caves etc.
We had heard loads about Queenstown being amazing but just ha d a few hours there, nothing much to see or do unless you wanna do a skydive so got on the road to head to the Milford Sound.
Its a big fiord , really nice drive to get there and loads of nice wee walks etc on the way.
After there the next major place was Dunedin. Driving in we were starting to sense something familiar the main streets are Princes & George Sts with Castle St, Frederick and Hanover Sts across them. It was a scottsih settlement years ago called New Edinburgh, so all the streets are like Edinburgh ones, its the only place in NZ with a castle and loads of Burns stuff including a statue in their main square, really weird. Was good we managed to get a Haggis and real Scottish Irn Bru, got it was good!
We checked out the castle, climbed the worlds steepest street (bloody hell its steep!), see seen some wild seals and seen some of the Scottish settlement stuff.
Last place on our route was Christchurch, the English settlement, absolutely nothing there tho but a few good pubs so it wasnt too bad i suppose!
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