Knackered What about the Land of the Long White Whatever?
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
It doesn’t bode well that there’s still 9 hours until tonight’s midnight premiere of Serenity kicks off, and I’m so tired I’m seriously considering either going home or taking a sleep under my desk. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what I’m going to have to do in order to avoid passing out right now.
I keep wanting to randomly assemble my thoughts on the New Zealand trip, which was one of the best holidays I’ve ever had, but I’ve been sleepy and stressed and a bit fluey ever since I’ve been back, and the motivation to do anything that resembles work is not unexpectedly absent.
To add to the tidbits I’ve committed to the ether, though, I will observe that although the original plan included a vague notion to go and visit places where they filmed various Middle-Earthly scenes, there was really no need for that. The whole place is just spectacular. Offhand I could recall only about two or three vantage points on the whole trip where we couldn’t see a snow-capped peak or sweeping verdant hills or treacherous gorges or, you know, something breathtaking. It really is the most ridiculously sight-seeable place imaginable.
Be warned though: the food is not cheap. However, their beer is pretty bloody good. And Queenstown is a total tourist trap of the order of Airlie Beach, but if you have money and an adventurous spirit, there’s an almost inexhaustible supply of cool stuff to do. Most of it is still there even when the snow goes away. We didn’t get to Milford Sound or Aoraki Mount Cook or any part of North Island so we’ll be going back.
And we wrote a lot of songs. Some of them will eventually become music, and then you’ll be sorry.
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