Thursday, November 20, 2008

Day 59 – Things are getting a lot steeper




Today was that time of the month again; it was time for a marathon of washing. We decided not to bring our washing around town with us until we actually found a place. Last time we brought it with us, we ended up covering 2 or 3kilometres before realising there was no laundrette open on Sunday’s in Wellington. Eventually we located a laundrette. We headed back to the Hostel to bring our clothes back with us. Tom decided he didn’t need to do any laundry so the three of us headed of to get this much needed job out of the way.

After some great results in survival 101, we decided to return to the Hostel with the pleasant aroma of our clothes. What ever happened from here it had been a successful day. A stroll around Dunedin was how we stretched the evening. The City is normally thriving with students but its end of term so it’s a lot quieter than usual. The city has a number of significant churches and cathedrals on offer. Most of which are protestant, Anglican or Presbyterian but it’s good to examine these to compare the differences.

The main tourist landmark of note that we visited today was the world’s steepest street. Baldwin Street was remarkable to look at to say the least. It has a slope of roughly 19 degrees. Being bananas as I am, I wanted to run up it. I attempted this extreme challenge. Reaching the top was only comparable to Armstrong walking on the moon in that I had to question did it actually happen. Mike and Gary decided it wasn’t for them. Mike’s ball got rolled down from the top. What hasn’t this ball done on the holiday. The views over Dunedin were marvellous. We made our way down from the summit.

We relaxed back the Hostel and watched the latest instalment of Prison Break season 4. The team’s latest adventures tired us all out so we decided to have an early night.

Stay posted,

Conor

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sorry to hear about the ball lads. Keep up the good work with the blog. Will get round to replying to yer bebo messages Gary and Mike. No access in college and here most of the day now from 7 in morning. Later.