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there was a difficult and very hilly section to fairlie and so i was exhausted an lazy. which is i can tell you very mortal combination. it took me the whole day to get there (which wasn’t a big deal if i consider the fact that i started around the lunch:) i took a hundrets of short rests as everything went on so slowly. i wanted to die just before fairlie. last hill was the hell on earth and i’ve paid for it with hectolitres of my sweat and burned fat. in fairlie was getting dark and i quickly managed to seek for some accommodation. the only one and the cheapest option was to pay for the tent 15 dollars in the holiday park (there was free internet in the price so it was probably 50% of the descision) i pitched the tent while other ppl watched me with that malicious smiles on their faces. i didn’t know why but my time hasn’t come yet. after some brief chat with the ones in the kitchen i moved to the tv room as it was heated with the heaters. it was very comfortable and i watched the batman movie and skyped with some of my friends in the czech rep. around half past midnight i went outside. the whole area was covered in the fog and it was humid as in the knickers of a girl who’ve just ended up her gym excersise. my tent was far from being univolved. it was like damp towel i was about to sleep in. it wasn’t to cold but i wanted to prevent getting cold by taking all of the clothes i had. two pairs of socks, two pants, 4 t shirts finished with warm hooded jacket. i made my tent quite neaty and fell asleep. i woke up at 4 am with feeling of sleeping on the piece of ice. i couldn’t prevent the cold going up from the sleeping mat. after several turns an attempts trying to fall asleep again i gave up and evacuated to the tv room. what was my surprise when i opened the tent and realised that it’s covered in ice and completely frozen. ice was even falling down from the zip of the entrance. my god!! what the fuck? i asked myself. i couldn’t fell asleep in the tv room as i was far from feeling relaxed so started skyping with my friend waiting for the sun to rise and thaw my ‘icy kingdom’. after serious drying technique it was stable to put it in the knapsack and i started cycling towards lake tekapo at half past twelve. 43 kms of total despair and exhaustion. i was feeling sleepy and desperate because there was that burke’s pass in front of me. 25 kms of climbing up with 4 last kms very difficult. i took a several pictures on the top finished the chocolate and continued 18 other kilometers to the tekapo village. i just want to say that views on the alps were hilarious until about 4 pm when i was worried if i could finish this stage. i was about to dying there as there was one hill after another. i had to start using the lights as it was to dark to see me and cars were passing me in amazing speeds. but then….salvation. sign of tekapo scenic reserve injected me with positivity and i regained my last energy reserves and made it inside the centre. i asked the guy at the petrol station where’s that yha hostel. i hardly spoked to the guy at the reception. just some kind of a sign and one word language was going on there. very impolite from me. after checkin, tea, instant soup and a shower i recovered and went to buy a massive bowl of chipies and tartar sauce. it dissappeared as quickly as i put it on the table. what a meal. and so here i go. happily staying in lake tekapo with wonderful views and nice visible stars at night. today was fucking cold outside that i payed for another night. it’s few degrees above zero and just going out to let one is very quick and cold proccess. tommorow is expected 8 degrees which is exactly the temperature to leave this place and move down to the warmer basins of this winter seasoned alpine place…