To start with the positive, David’s place is in a truly beautiful part of New Zealand and offers stunning night and day views of the sky and of Lake Tekapo. It’s also stylish in its way and relatively well-appointed, though not as well as you’d expect for high-end pricing.
We arrived late and only for a night, so had limited time and limited patience for a good number of small and medium-sized things not going as smoothly as we’d expected with the house. We were very tired so improvised solutions and made the best of it rather than try and involve our host who, to be fair, had communicated well in advance.
That said, some of the instructions about aspects of the house left us surprised and didn’t seem very welcoming: parking, how to use the fire (which smokes the room heavily), to what happens if you spill something on expensive beanbags, to rather daunting instructions about the outside bath.
But the patio bath is worth persevering with for the starry view! And that sunrise…