Hermitage

This is our most expensive accommodation on this trip. 40 yar ago I was trying to sleep in the backpacker YHA bunks.  All I could think of was scaling the peaks the next day so I did not get much sleep.  The same then as now, in so far as the weather cleared for the trip.  We are gazing out of a picture window at Mt Cook, we have dinner reservations in the Panorama room and a bus took us to the glacier and back.  40 yar ago we had to hitchhike to get here, we slept in bunks and used a communal kitchen to cook snags and potatoes.

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