A flying visit to Wellington and the next morning we made our way to the South Island. The ferry left at 9 am and took just over three hours. Apparently there was lots of beautiful scenery and dolphins along he way but I missed it all as I fell asleep soon after we left Wellington. Our bus collected us from Picton and we left for Nelson. The views along the way were stunning, lots of green and hardly any clouds in the sky. We did make a stop to do some wine tasting but we also got the opportunity to do some olive oil tasting. It was quite delicious, and we filled our stomachs with the free bread and for dessert, we got to try the homemade dessert toppings. It was all quite delicious. We arrived in Nelson around 4PM and managed to get lost in the town even though it isn’t that big! At six o’clock, we were given free soup in the hostel and we spent the evening watching TV. This was my last night with some of the friends that I made along the way and I was quite sad to be leaving them and having to go the through the process of making new friends once again.
One night in Nelson and I was off to greymouth. This trip was full of stops to visit seal colonies and places known as pancake rocks. We arrived in Greymouth at about quarter past 5 where I was completelyt embarrassed by the owner who made a big show of me because I was the only person on my own. He put me in a room with 2 people who adopted me into their family for the night. That night we went to the brewery in Greaymouth where we got a tour of the brewery and got to practice pulling our own pints. I got 10 out of 10 for the pint and I pulled which revealed the irish in me! The brewery was full of locals who just went up behind the bar and pulled their own pints and who were all extremely friendly and delighted to talk to us all. From their we were taking to an all you can eat BBQ in the local hotel-which basically consisted of sausages and salad! We stayed their for the night all getting to know each other and having great fun dancing away and getting to know the locals from the exciting town of Greymouth.
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