The Bish Krew on Tour

Welcome to the antics of the BishKrew on tour round the world. Bish Crew members: Tommy O'Gallagher, Kieran Rafter, James Askew, Tom Fleming, Laurie Howell and Teo Lopéz-Bernal.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

19th March, Queenstown

After reading about Laurie and Teo we felt we should probably write an update of our own adventures.
We left Cairns on a ridiculously early flight to Sydney following a pretty big last night at Gilligan's. Once landed we had to navigate through several train and taxi journeys to reach our eventual destination in Wyong, two hours outside Sydney. We were all looking forward to chilling out, maxing, relaxing, or cooling, or shooting some B-Ball by the Smith's pool. But when we saw the lake and the selection of neglected pedalos we were all thoroughly over-stimulated.
Our first adventure saw us taking the local nightclub by storm with Laura, Hannah and their friends. We felt we had to live up to a binge drinking reputation, but sliding down banisters into tiny (angry) Australian girls probably wasn't the best idea.
While in Wyong we spent a lot of time building up our fat reserves or adding to them as the case may be. The Smith's wonderful hospitality was much appreciated.
Our first day in central Sydney was spent at the Easter Show, a load of farmers competing against one another in various agricultural disciplines with free food samples and chocolate thrown in for good measure - ace!
The second day was a little more relaxed as we spent all of our time on Bondi Beach, soaking up the atmosphere and getting some well-deserved chillout time.
The third day was probably the most exciting as KJT ascended the spectacular Sydney harbour bridge on a wallet ravaging and vaguely exciting tour. Following this we headed off to starbucks for a quick nap before comencing the nights activites at the notorious King's Cross. What happens in King's Cross, stays in King's Cross - absolutely nothing. Fun times though.
The rest of our days were spent eating barbecues, sipping beers, swimming in lakes and watching netball tournaments. We enjoyed Sydney very much and left for Christchurch feeling well-fed and relaxed.
We arrived in Christchurch where James was promptly set upon by Customs who dragged him off for an hour because he had "been to high risk drug countries and fits the demographic [they were] looking for". More panic occured when we discovered Gerrard and Mel weren't home, but a quick cup of tea with the neighbours settled us down a treat.
During our few days in Christchurch we watched Sticky the Stunt Clown aka Rent Boy (his words not ours) in Cathedral Square and attended a Canterbury Crusaders Match. Match report: Dan Carter - Professional Legend.
Somehow we managed to blag the hire of a 3.6L Nissan saloon for the long drive down to Queenstown and by 3.6 we mean 1.5. The drive consisted of Kieran and Tommy opening the engine up in front of some of the most stunning views we'd seen, whilst DJ Jamie Q was banging the tunes out in the back. After an hour or two he stopped beat-boxing and Kieran turned the Ipods on. 8 hours, 5 speeding tickets, 3 devasted trees and some surprisingly mild damage to the bodywork we collapsed at our hostel. Unfortunately we were woken up at 4am by our drunk Welsh roommates who talked us into spraying the car pink to cover the dents. Then we killed a prostitute and wrapped her in a carpet. Decide for yourself when you think we started lying.
We leave Queenstown tommorow and our time has been spent wisely with 3 bungy jumps and a river boarding trip under our belts. Although we were all slightly nervous about jumping to say the least, one particular member of the group would come dangerously close to throwing up over himself prior to each jump. All over his grey hoody. With "JA" written in the label. His name was James Askew. All three jumps were crazy for different reasons. A running jump, a dunk in a river and some old school height.
Speak soon, LOL KJT

1 Comments:

Blogger Askews said...

When I was young and working in the jungle of Ecuador, my mother used to put her hands on her ears every time I went back home and started telling her of my adventures... How I sympathise with her now, although at the time I thought she was a wimp! We did think that James had not enjoyed the begining of the jumps that much, but we are glad that this bit is now out of the system and I fully agree with Paul. I can't take much more excitment, so go back to sightseeing and lying on beaches please (and keep writing!)
Much love to you all,
SA

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