New Zealand. Dunedin.

Today I left all the people I had been travelling with to start my voyage into the Deep South on a massive hangover! We joined a small bus which was nice and a bit more friendly than the big busses. We travelled east out of Queenstown and stopped off at our first stop of Clyde. This was a cute little village which was established during the gold rush so looked like something out of the Wild West in America. 

After an important coffee stop we set off for Dunedin. Dunedin means Edinburgh in Gaelic and apparently has a very Scottish influence. Not seen it. We made a stop at the world steepest road to climb it. Not the most amazing sight I've seen in NZ! 

There was a nice seat at the top though. 

We then got to our hostel and I headed out to explore. Didn't really find anything very interesting. Looks like a nice town though with lots of nice bars and cafés. It has a huge student population so caters well to that. I then went on a brewery tour I'd signed up to. It was of the Speights brewery which is apparently the most famous in NZ. We went around the brewery and the guide was really interesting, but we didn't see any beer being brewed!! Which was disappointing. But at the end we got half an hour with a free bar! We got to try lots of their beers and that was great.  

I learned that it was the Egyptians who first created beer from stale bread and water. They described the effects in these hieroglyphics. So accurate!