Road Trip to Middlemarch and Naseby

The long weekend finally arrived and Mike and I were off for another roadtrip. To where, who knew??? Mike drove and i was allowed to choose the way. So into middle-earth we travelled. And we stumbled across Middlemarch... there is not much to it, but as we drove thru the town we spotted a painting of a map on the side wall of a garage. It had all the things you could visit in Middlemarch. So off we went to find them all. Like our own little treasure hunt.

So off we went to find them. First we came to the stone cottage, then we saw pine cone hill, then onto the stone cattle yards (that was quite amazing) and last but not least the suspension bridge. As usual i took heaps of photos, they are in my album if you want to look thru them.

Now we had to find a place to stay so we ventured onto Ranfurly. Stopping at several different places to look and read about the famous Rail Trail. Ranfurly - Certainly is an Art Deco place. The information centre pointed us in the direction of Naseby. So we drove another 10 minutes down the road and came across The Black Forest. Now that was a surprise. After being in the Black Forest only a year ago (in Germany) I found out we have our own little Black forest here in good ole New Zealand.

Time to find a place to sleep, but first we took a quick detour to the curling rink. It was just on closing so we decided to come down first thing in the morning and have a go. Naseby seemed just as small as Middlemarch, blink and you'd miss it. We found an old pub (The Britton) to stay in, had some dinner, a few to many drinks and crashed for the night.

Well today i woke up feelin good, i knew come 10 oclock i'd be on the ice giving curling ago. After a good breakie, we departed our accomodation and headed for the ice. What great fun. We got a run down on how to play the game, then it was Mike Vs Pip. I must admit that Mike was in front on points to start with and then i made a come back to win the game. Yee haa!!!! I think we played for a good hour, great fun!

Well time flys and we had to start finding our way home again. We took a road called "The Pigroot Road", that lead us passed "Dead Horse Gully" and onto Palmerston, then back down the main road to Dunedin. What a great couple of days we had. Last but not least we headed straight for the car wash, our poor car was covered in mud.