Day 161 Franz Josef-Queenstown, New Zealand

Today started as a very enjoyable and scenic drive to Queenstown but by mid afternoon turned into a very expensive one for me. Just after stopping off at Wanaka for lunch we continued onto Queenstown and got stuck behind this old couple driving ridiculously slowly. As the roads were very twisty I took my time in finding a safe place to overtake them, or so I thought. After getting past them within 30 seconds I noticed a police car up my arse flashing his lights and I pulled over thinking he wanted to get past, however it was me he was stopping. All 3 of us trying to think what I had done wrong before the policeman comes up to me and says “Hello sir how are you today”, to which my reply wanted to be “Well it was fantastic till you stopped me you tosser” but instead kept my mouth shut. Anyway his excuse for pulling me over and also fining me £60 was because I apparently went over broken yellow lines when overtaking which you can do in England and also because apparently I couldn’t see more than 100 metres in front of myself, however when we went back to the same road 2 days later you can actually see for 400 metres on the stretch where I overtook. People did say New Zealand police were arseholes and how right they were. Despite my protests there was no way this guy was letting me off so he issued me my fine before wishing me a good day the muppet.
So after getting delayed we then made it to Queenstown which has an amazing location nestled nicely beside the lake and surrounded by mountains with a few still having a small covering of snow on them.

Mountains at Wanaka