So who are our fellow tourists? Germans, Germans everywhere!! At Kimi Ora everyone was speaking German at breakfast. We also see a large number of people from the Netherlands, Britain, Australia and some young people from Norway. We met a family of 5 from Israel who struck us as being so friendly and open. On the boat to the Abel Tasman track we met a Chicago thirty-something couple who quit their jobs, rented out their condo and will travel the world for a year. He loved his job in advertising, she hated her job as an attorney in a big law firm. They have been to Australia, and next will go to SE Asia and teach English for a bit in Laos.
At our last hostel stop we met an older woman traveling alone from Germany. She spoke very good English, but our dinner conversation was a strange mixture of German and English, merging from one language to the other. The other Germans at our table must have thought we were rather strange! It turns out this woman is an MD in a small town in Bavaria. She has over 6 weeks in NZ! I can't recall anyone in the US who takes more than 2 weeks vacation at a time. Six weeks would be most unusual.
At our last hostel stop we met an older woman traveling alone from Germany. She spoke very good English, but our dinner conversation was a strange mixture of German and English, merging from one language to the other. The other Germans at our table must have thought we were rather strange! It turns out this woman is an MD in a small town in Bavaria. She has over 6 weeks in NZ! I can't recall anyone in the US who takes more than 2 weeks vacation at a time. Six weeks would be most unusual.
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