After a quick visit to misty Nugget Point and Roary Bay (with a lighthouse, a colony of fur seals and some Yellowcrested pinguins you can view from a hide-out) we head for Dunedin.
Dunedin is an old Scottish word for Edinburough. And indeed, you do will find out that a huge amount of people living in Dunedin have Scottish roots.
Meet Jenny and Adrian. She's a Scottish farmer's daughter, he's from England. They met in Edinburough while studying both Chemistry. The only chemistry that ever took place there was the reaction between Jenny and Adrian. Love can do strange things to people, and how lucky we are that these adorable people kept moving on together. They both like travelling and that's actually how they got involved in Servas. First being guests in places from Denmark to Japan (most of that travelling on a bike), and enjoying it very much, they decided to host people as well. But first there was another issue to solve: 'where do we want to live'? After having seen Latin America, Africa and most parts of Europe, they came to New Zealand and decided: 'whaw, this feels good'. After a slight hesitation about where to look for a house and a living, they suddenly spotted Dunedin. Everything kind of came together in Dunedin.
We had the nicest time with Jenny and Adrian. While they went out working, we could use their house and their computer with broadband connection. It felt almost as a relief that it started raining in Dunedin, so we did not have to feel guilty about only leaving the house to go and get the groceries for the evening meal.
We hope to meet them again in our house. On a sunny day in Belgium?
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