New Zealand - Queenstown, Skiing at The Remarkables Day #3, True South Restaurant

Yesterday we made the brave decision to drive to The Remarkables rather than catch the bus. Well, Andrew made the brave decision, I mostly just did a lot of whimpering. It was a bit daunting since the view from our room showed the mountain range swallowed by clouds. The drive was very safe but was still terrifying even though the visibility and conditions were fine. I can't imagine what it's like doing it with snow chains!

The visibility on the mountain was ridiculous. It got worse throughout the day as a cloud came in, and at one point you could only see about 3 chairs in front of you on the ski lift! Andrew did another couple of lessons, and I spent the day getting in mileage on Turquoise run. I'm getting quite confident in my ability to turn even at high speeds now, but I called it at around 3:30pm when it got so cloudy that I only noticed a fallen snow boarder just in time to not trample him.







The drive down was a bit more scary than the drive up, but it was definitely all in my imagination because the conditions were fine. Most of the drive has barriers, but the scariest parts are where you're driving on the outside edge of the road, there's no barriers, and then a bus comes the other way. Andrew really enjoyed the drive even though he had to keep reassuring me throughout. When we got lower to the bottom he even noted cheerfully that if we fell of the edge then we probably wouldn't even die!



Dinner was at True South restaurant, the beautiful and awarded restaurant in the Rees hotel. There was a lot of local produce (we had the lamb leg to share as a main), and a lot of Japanese inspired dishes that fittingly reminded us of our last ski holiday in Japan. Dessert was really beautiful, my favourite part was the liquorice ice-cream that perfectly complimented the vodka soaked cherries which were very similar to Mina's visinata. A special thanks to Georgia and Krystal who gave me some NZ cash for my birthday to spend on a fancy dinner! We absolutely loved it, even though there were only three Petit Fours.









We're about to enjoy one last breakfast with the Rees Hotel view, then we're going to try a different mountain, Coronet Peak. I'm literally aching for the Onsen Hot Pools that we have booked afterwards!