Dunedin

Cadbury world! Those things are full of 'CRUMB'!

Larnach castle

Dunedin station

Dunedin is a small studenty town, home to some of the first Scottish settlers in New Zealand, and of course, Cadbury chocolate NZ. Apparently Dunedin is gaelic for 'Edinburgh', and people even use the word 'wee' over here without needing the toilet. It was a really nice place and had a lot going on, including NZ's only castle, Larnach Castle which we had a good look around. We went a bit tourist crazy one day though and even went to the Cadbury factory, which I have to say is much better than the one in Birmingham, where we got taken round and shown how they make all the choccy goodness, including 'Buttons' and easter eggs. The highlight was at the end when they pour one tonne of melted chocolate down from the top of a huge tower right in front of your eyes, and you attempt not to get splashed, it was awesome! Then to be truly geeky we decided to go on a ghost tour at night. Loving all things Derek Acorah, I wanted the whole thing, a freak who claims to be 'getting something from the spirit world', dressed up in ghost hunting gear (whatever that is). Sure as anything we get some fruit loop sculking out from round a corner coming to meet us and show us round Dunedin and tell us the tales of the dark side! It was pretty tame at first but the scariest bit was right at the end where he takes us down to something that resembles a bomb shelter, where it is the darkest dark that I have ever seen, and the fruit then claims that his torch isn't working because of the spirit forces. Then some chap in the group called 'Amos' starts telling ghost stories. When the light goes on again all you can see is me clamped to Nic afraid to even open my eyes. I'm gonna submit my application to be Derek's next partner/'believer' on Ghosttowns.