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I plan to make it a relaxed day today and I desire coffee, so I start the morning at Starbucks. I stay there and do some webdevelopment work until the end of the afternoon. Then I go to a famous local food place, the Fergburger. It’s good that I’m there just between lunchtime and dinnertime, because normally there are long lines of people waiting for a burger, but I can order almost straight away. The burger and fries are very nice and so is the milkshake. I guess they think I look like an English prince, since they put the name Edward at the first order and Henry on the second.

I enjoy a nice lunch and walk through downtown Queenstown. Then I go to the park right next to the water. It’s bright and sunny weather and there are many people outside. On the water are speedboats and in the sky are some paragliders. Queenstown really is a place of activities. I walk downtown again and fine a bar with a big bookcase in the corner, a nice place to read a book. I love to read, but normally I don’t always find the time and rest for it. Now that I’m on vacation it’s easier and I want to make it a habit I can take home with me.

On my way back to the hostel I get some groceries for dinner. Since I have a kitchen here, I feel like I should make use of it before I have to cook on a gas cooker again next week. I added some more days to my stay here in Queenstown and will probably start driving again on Monday. Back at the hostel I hang out with the other people for a while, play some games at the x-box, have dinner and don’t go to bed too late. Although the evenings are also fun here, I like to stick to an early schedule, because I love the mornings so much. Today was a relaxed day, tomorrow I probably have to do some work again.

I wake up at 3.00AM. Not because I’m not tired, but because there is a giant panda bear snoring in the bed below mine. Actually it’s a very friendly little Asian guy, but he makes so much noise. I try to get back to sleep but I can’t, so I go to the living room to lay on a couch. There are a Dutch guy and an American girl in the living room, just back from going out. We talk for a while and then they go to bed. I can’t fall asleep anymore and listen to some music.

As a nice surprise the clock is put one hour forward this night, so in a blink of a second it’s 04.00am and then 05.00am. Almost a decent time to get up. I do my workout, have a shower and make myself a good breakfast. A little later more people come in the living room, getting ready for work. Most people here are staying for a long time and therefore are also working. So far since yesterday I’ve met people from America, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Canada and some French speaking people of which I don’t know exactly where they’re from. It’s a nice international group and people are very friendly. One guy makes me some delicious coffee and we hang out in the living room for a while. Then people go to their work and I go to Starbucks to do some work myself as well.

Sitting in a nice spot in the living room

Queenstown is really a small town, not a city at all. It’s just a couple of streets next to a big lake and feels like a backpackers town. Most of the people on the street look like tourists and backpackers. I’m happy to see the Starbucks at only eight minutes walking from the hostel and I expect to find myself spending quite some time here in the coming days. I work for a couple of hours and then take a break to have lunch and walk downtown. Except for tourist shops, bars and restaurants and extreme sports there is not so much to do here actually, so I walk back to the hostel and continue working there until dinner time. Then I feel like I’ve done enough work for today.

I hang out with the people in the hostel for a while. The guy that manages this place is also a very good musician and he plays his guitar in the living room. I make myself some pasta again, that’s the one of the nice things of making Italian food: there is always enough for at least two days. I go to bed early to make sure I’ll get some sleep tonight.

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