Day: July 19, 2013

Remind me never to stay at Mountain View Backpackers in Wanaka again. The queen-size bed is a double, the room not much larger with a low acoustical tile ceiling, bare grey walls and a musty smell, and there are no towels. Outside my door, a group of young people is smoking, drinking and shrilling. The living area is minuscule and inhabited by a sneezing, coughing, nose-blowing young man who is blasting germs throughout the whole […]

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