Aaaarrrrggghhh . . .

[Kiwi XTR2]

I have to go to Dunedin on Wednesday / Thursday for work. Must have been very bad in a previous life.

[Esprit]

calling GravelBen

plenty of fun to be had down there Graham... it'll be sometime around end of lectures... think of all the drunken nubile young female students to ogle

[GravelBen]

Its not that bad down here though for some reason its been raining a lot the last week. Weather must know you're coming


I've got an exam friday but always keen to avoid studying so drop me a line if you want to have a beer or something. (Or I can show you the best roads to give your hire car death on )

[Kiwi XTR2]

GravelBen said:

Its not that bad down here though for some reason its been raining a lot the last week. Weather must know you're coming


I've got an exam friday but always keen to avoid studying so drop me a line if you want to have a beer or something. (Or I can show you the best roads to give your hire car death on )

I'm being picked-up from the airport by the client. Guessing they think a Dorklander would get lost on the way in to town.

They've even booked dinner meetings. Probably means I'm paying

[GravelBen]

Well you know, its pretty hard to find Dunedin from the airport. Drive up the road, reach SH1, turn left. Get that last bit wrong and you'll end up in Balclutha

Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 16th October 12:41

[Esprit]

GravelBen said:

Well you know, its pretty hard to find Dunedin from the airport. Drive up the road, reach SH1, turn left. Get that last bit wrong and you'll end up in Balclutha

Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 16th October 12:41

• remembers days of hitchhiking from chch to GORE to visit my girlfriend who lived there* back in the day

• note I said she lived there, she wasn't from there....... god forbid!

[GravelBen]

Esprit said:

• note I said she lived there, she wasn't from there....... god forbid!

Only the normal amount of fingers and toes then I take it?

[Esprit]

GravelBen said:

Esprit said:

• note I said she lived there, she wasn't from there....... god forbid!

Only the normal amount of fingers and toes then I take it?

Well she was from Waimate, so that's debatable.

[Kylie]

Good old Waimate (waimos) we call em. We always had fun banter with the Waimos saying they were a wee bit interbred like all the stick Tasmania gets. I think it were because Waimate used to be good at rugby, sports etc giving Timaru clubs a run for their money, so had to give them stick for something

[Kylie]

Kiwi XTR2 said:

I have to go to Dunedin on Wednesday / Thursday for work. Must have been very bad in a previous life.

Me too... although am flying down Friday night get in at 9ish and fly back on Monday. Big family doo down there, been told to bring some layers !!

[RobDickinson]

Mates been down there a bit, back today.

Weather was nice yesterday but I think your in for a shocker today

[GravelBen]

Obviously Dunedin is still the place to be!

[GravelBen]

Dunedin weather today...







(it actually looks nicer in that photo )

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 17th October 03:21

[Kylie]

OMG...looks like flipping snow clouds!

[GravelBen]

Kylie said:

OMG...looks like flipping snow clouds!

Can't see any at the moment (its cleared a wee bit now) but we had a dusting up on the hills last week. The bigger hills around the city are 6-700m high though so snow still wasn't really low level.

[CRM]

Just to add to the thread I too will be there Sat - Mon. Thinking of taking the TVR but maybe I should check the weather first....

[Kiwi XTR2]

Got caught coming back across the Octagon in a shower . . . of hail

Tooooo many Subway's, Starbuck's etc

Very friendly locals though. All staggering up to me in the street

"Do you know where the Uni Bar is?"

"Do you know where the Monkey Bar is?"

"No sorry, I've just arrived in town."

"Cool. Stick with us dude, we'll find it . . . I think it's this way"

[GravelBen]

Sounds like Dunedin all right.


ETA: Does coming back across the Octagon mean you were at the DCC, or just one of the other businesses round there? I was based at the Civic centre (1st floor) beside the Octagon when I worked for them.

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 17th October 13:55

[GravelBen]

CRM said:

Just to add to the thread I too will be there Sat - Mon. Thinking of taking the TVR but maybe I should check the weather first....

Currently looking a bit damp Sat but not bad Sun-Mon so you might be all right. Is it just a case of taking it a bit easy when wet in the TVR or does it do silly things like leaking?



P.S.(shameless blagging here) - if you do bring it and think you're likely to have spare time and an interest in enlightening someone who's never been in a TVR, feel free to PM me. No worries if not though

[Kiwi XTR2]

GravelBen said:

Sounds like Dunedin all right.


ETA: Does coming back across the Octagon mean you were at the DCC, or just one of the other businesses round there? I was based at the Civic centre (1st floor) beside the Octagon when I worked for them.

Yep. Level 2


And why is all the pesto in Dunedin restaurants (well 3 out of 3 anyway) "parsley pesto"? Quite nice but I like a little kick in my greens