Wino forever.

Since starting a new entry with a song is so cool:

“Are you ready for the time of your life?!”

          Slipknot – Vendetta

Ok, hold on to your hats, here we go! First lets do some summary: Ive been on the road for 9 weeks this Sunday. I can honestly say, I haven’t had a bad day since leaving Finland. I’ve had 2 invitations to Australia and 1 to Thailand, including a place to stay. I’ve gathered some ideas on how to live my life back in Finland. And the most drastic change is the decision to take on studying again and applying for university, there it’s no secret no more. Obviosly met some lovely people and had some good times and great memories.

You must be curious whats been happening since I last made an entry. Last entry was in Taupo after the Crossing, we were exhausted the day after, but still decided to go for a walk to Huka falls. What was supposed to be a nice evening stroll turned out to be bit of a hike but well worth the efford. First of all Huka falls is freaking crazy and second of all there was a hot stream with some ladies bathing in it on our way back. Volcanic soil can do some amazing things, you cant imagine how hot the water was.

We left Taupo to head to Wellington just for one night. We booked a hostel beforehand. To our joy, there was a slight booking mistake on their part, and instead of a 6 bed dorm we ended up having a private double room ensuite, which wasnt bad at all. Next morning was once again an early one, we made our way through wind and rain to ferry terminal. The 3 hour ferry ride wasn’t most enjoyable since food was too damn expensive and we were both starving. After 3 hours of torture we were in Picton and it was pouring outside. After some waiting we decided to go for it and headed to the city center for some Subway and some groceries, well worth it! A slight setback occured later on, because Eero forgot his mp3 player’s recharge cord to the ferry terminal.

Nelson was our next destination. After few hours of waiting a bus driver, who turned out to be a mad man, arrived. Two hour busride to Nelson was pure madness because of the way this guy drove. We still got to our destination safe and all was good again. We had booked YHA hostel from Nelson, and it turned out to be a good choice, with ping pong tables and a sweet kitchen. We also got to watch a movie that evening, super inspiring Into the Wild, which I recommend to you all. We decided to stay one full day in Nelson, and took a walk uphill to the Center of New Zealand, after that we just walked around town.

It was time to leave Nelson and retreat to Golden Bay’s silence. Again our busride was really early, our destination was a town called Collingwood (pop. 250). Every busride I’ve taken here has been really well organized, and so was this one, even though there were 3 changes. From Collingwood we were picked up by the owner of the camp site we would spend 7 days. Puponga was even smaller than Collingwood, oh the peace and quiet, it was awesome! First night was misty to say the least but we went for a walk along Farewell spit and a nearby beach, just a small glimpse of what was to come. The wind was crazy up there every day, but we didnt really care. 2nd day there was all about chilling, and that we did. Though in the evening we went to see the seals on a beach about 5 minutes walk away. Wild seals, WILD FREAKING SEALS on you doorstep! On our 3rd day we borrowed some bikes (munamankeleita molemmat) and rode to the nearest shop 8 kilometers away. Other than that we just took it easy, did some laundry and chilled. Some of the nights were also cold, and our night fashion included fleece jackets, double socks, wool hats etc. On the 4th day we were supposed to go for a long trek, but the weather was a bit lousy, so we decided to postpone it and just chilled again . On the 5th day we finally did the Hilltop Walk to Wharariki beach. It was about 3,5 hours to the beach in the strongest wind Ive ever seen anywhere! The beach was desertlike but beautiful. We had some lunch in a cave on the beach and then headed home. 6th day was chilling again, Eero’s antibiotics ran out so we celebrated with some red wine. On our last day we went for a walk again, to a beach called the Fossil point, and further along the Spit. Once again in one of the strongest winds ever. Crazy! Today we left Puponga, which already felt like home. One of the best places in the world, easily! Now we are back in Nelson, preparing for our last hectic weeks.

Tomorrow we’ll head back to Picton for one night. On Sunday Aino (Eero’s sister) will arrive in Picton and we’ll pick up our rental car. Its gonna be hectic I tell you, HECTIC! Stay tuned! Oh and the name of the entry is really random, maybe some of you will catch on to it.

PS. Some pictures will follow, since the computer Im on is too retarded.

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