8th June 2011 Oamaru to Dunedin by coach

Very glad we decided to go by bus.  The road is hilly and busy and has quite a lot of blind rises and blind corners.
Stayed at the Cumberland Hotel which is near the university and the Botanic gardens.  Our host Wayne was very helpful and cheerful.  We put 4 new bullet proof tyres on the bikes.  We have done 1200 km since Wellington.
Dunedin is a delightful city.  We cycled out to the end of the  Otago peninsular and then up to Larnach Castle high up on the ridge on the way back.  It was a 70km ride and Les had another puncture on about 40km.  This triggered our decision to replace our tyres.
Wayne, the owner of Cumberland Motel has been approached by the studio making the movie "Mr Pip" starring Hugh Laurie (House).  They want to use the main house of the hotel as the scene of Mr Pip's wifes home in Edinburgh.  They are filming in Dunedin because it hs such beautiful old buildings.
We did the tour of Speights Brewery.  Excellent!  Speights Gold Medal now Ash's favourite  beer.  The young lads who were also on the tour with us made good use of the free tastings at the end!