The californian ski nut and i said we would meet up at greymouth. He sells pharmasuticles across the USA. I can't remeber his name at the moment but he is single although had a few relationships and a fait bit older than myself, I would say! Anyhow on the way I stopped at a beautiful lake then we caught up with one another at Hokitika which he was told was a town worth seeing. I
On second inspection it wasn't although they had a kiwi house which was shut so we went for a coffee and then headed to greymouth. On the way I caught sight of his car spurting mud everywhere. He wasn't used to driving on the other side of teh road and without teh hard shoulder lains. So he had underestimated the curve and sprayed mud every where. You want to see the white car, the front now brown.
Anyhow we got to greymouth and stayed at the YHA. We shared a room with four bunk beds. We then decided to go out for dinner and found a seafood restaurant where we had a great meal and a bottle of wine. After asking a kiwi couple where we could go we were told don't go there.
Although all the fish were fried it was a good meal and we shared whitebait fritters for startes and I had one of the local fish for mains which was nice. White bait are a big thing for the area and not like the ones at home. They are tiny and look more like white tadpoles. Tasted good though.
After dinner it was back to teh youth hostel and a very dsiturbed sleep. That's in private journal.
Posted by alexd at August 18, 2004 06:53 AM