The reason of this trip to Arrowtown (about 10km away from Frankton) was the annual autumn festival. There was a big market with different stuff to buy or to eat. Furthermore, there were some buskers, a street artist, different kind of live music and for the younger one’s any kind of bikes, except a normal one.
Arrowtown itself is quite small with two important streets, surrounded with shops, take aways and restaurants. On the board of the town is a lovely brook, where they found gold in the early days.
At two o’clock was the parade, with vintage cars, floats for every local clubs and stores and the popular can-can dancers. It was by no means serious, so both the queen and the new married couple were attended. After that a Celtic group performed on the green. They played several songs, such as cover songs from the Beatles and other known songs and it was interesting listen to the bagpipes.
At four the main event was over and we took the next bus back, or better, we wanted to take the next bus. It seemed that the bus company wasn’t prepared for this event and it took a long time until another bus arrived.
At the evening we had dinner in town, to say goodbye to Vincenzo but we didn’t go out long and took a regular bus back home.
On Sunday I met Anna and Anya, who comes also from Germany, and we took the steam ship to visit a local farm. The steamship was really nice and I had seen it many times before in the harbour of Queenstown. Despite the fact that the farm is very touristy it’s still worth to visit. You get a good impression of a sheep farm and they didn’t forget tea time, with something to eat and drink!
There were some sheep, Alpacas and deer. But the most amazing thing was to look at a sheep dog while he’s working. Even when he sat down on the ground, he stared at the sheep, which didn’t risk moving.
So after all, it was a good and interesting but lazy weekend with no sport activities at all.
Hope I can improve that on the next weekend!
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