Dunedin Day 1

Had a great flight to Dunedin from Wellington, took about 1 hour and we arrived to beautiful weather. Picked up the rental car and we are off to discover the sights and sounds of this city. Dunedin is the fifth largest city in New Zealand and its Scottish beginning makes it quite different from anywhere else in New Zealand. Dunedin is the old Gaelic name for Edinburgh but Dunedin is hillier, smaller, closer to the sea and has better climate (so they say??). Dunedin has many Scottish traits including the haggis ceremony - fine golf courses and pipe band.

We visited an awesome beach and then drove to do a short hike, the wind picked up and the temperatures began to drop, not a good sign. Francois decided to take one last picture of me before we set off on the trail, I promptly closed the door and just as it clicked shut, I remembered that the keys to the car were still inside!!!!!

So there we are in the middle of nowhere locked out of the car!! Not a great situation to be in.

So after taking several deeeeeeepppp breaths, I can down the road and pull some wire off of a padock fence to try and jimmy the door open. No such luck.

Fortunately 20 minutes later a lovely couple of women arrived from their hike and the had a membership for the Automobile Association and they managed to get a signal on their cellphone! PHIEW. 40 minutes later a tow truck showed up and we got back into the car. We owe these ladies a great debt and thanks to them we salvaged our day. It was sooooo cold and they let us sit in their car and keep warm.

We returned today to finish the hike, it was well worth it.

We sure have had some bad luck on this trip...at times....