Hallo readers,
Today I give you some information about Cromwell, the small town I actually living and working in. I already told you that I do pruning on fruit trees like peaches, apricots, plums and apples. The first week was quit hard to get used to the work because you have to reach a surtain amount of trees to be pruned every day to get the minimum wage of money. The payment per tree depends on the tree size and varied between 4,40 and 6 $NZ. On the best days I could do about 30 trees a day, the worst day`s were about 23 trees. In the end I got an average wage of 130-140 $ a day which is actually about 65 to 70 € in 8 hours. This is about 3 to 4 $ above the New Zealand minimum wage of 15 $ per hour which is one of the lowest in the top 30 industrialised countrys. A lot of young New Zealanders go abroad for working, especially to Australia.
I already worked in the last 4 weeks and do another two weeks before I go on my trip again.
Two days ago I was stung by a wasp and my right hand is swollen to it`s double size and feels like a ball on my arm.
On the weekend two weeks before I did a nice cycling tour with Drew (Canada/Banff) and Hendrik (Germany/Osnabrück) through 4 vineyards and one olive farm where we tasted a lot of nice and awardwinning wine. The area of central Otago is the most southern wine growing region in the world and the grow excellent pinot noir and pinot griss. Some vineyards also grow cabernet sauvignon and gewürztraminer.
We also had a nice, but expensive lunch at a winery.
So now the pictures, enjoy them....
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| The Chalets Holiday Park, the place where I live today. |
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| the community area |
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| Today in the morning |
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| on the way to work |
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| the first Bungy Jump point in History between Crommwell and Queenstown (AJ Hacked Bungy, Kawarau Bridge) |
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| Hanging around on the Weekend at the terrace with Hendrik, Drew, Joe and Pete |
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| Rain comes up |
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| Way to the Town Centre |
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| at the Suncrest Orchard |
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| a Hydraladder |
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| a Hydraladder with Hendrik |
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| Pruned Peach Trees in the morning |
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| The vineyard cycling tour |
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| our first vineyard |
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| Lake Dunstan with a lot of vineyards around |
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| Hendrik with the worst bike of all |
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| at an tasting at Remarkable Wines in Bannock Burn |
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| the expansive meal, I got quail with figs and a nice sauce |
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| the wine Cellar through a glass floor |
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| the olive farmer |
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| on the way back we made a short stop at a nice spot with another bottle of pinot noir |
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| at a small recreational reserve near bannock burn with hundreds of rabbit holes |
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| like this one in a thick layer of loess |
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| thats all loess, some 5 meters thick on the surface |
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| and my swollen hand in contrast to my normal one |
Fresse over and out !!!
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