ball room was giving the shining

What a top bloke Gordon is. Another gem - Thanks Glen & Mado

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

Richard you legend! Yeah trying to mix it up abit and show the hospitality 🙂

Gordon’s a nice guy!

Thanks for representing NZ hospitality Gordon.

Hi Glen and Mado love your video two things not to miss in Invergargill is E Hayes and son hardware store great display of motor bikes including Bert Munroe's The Worlds Fastest Indian motor bike and his life made into a movie of the same name also Bill Richardson Motor World just not to be missed I live in Christchurch and love lower South Island especially Stewart Island. I always have a laugh when Glen mentions its quite around here but thats normal not many people live in New Zealand plus most live in Auckland and us in the South Island like it that way. Usually is windy around NZ coast because there is nothing but wild south pacific ocean out there and its the weather that makes our coastline so rugged and wild and amazingly beautiful

You got a free Mason's tour

@trudimclaren4301

5 ай бұрын

Lol - love it! 😅

@tubbyrainbow111

5 ай бұрын

Rotten 3masons, so funny how they didn't even know what they were in lol

Good on you Gordon.

What a Champ you are Gordon! And what lovely Children you have. How kind to give so much time, petrol and food. True gentleman. As a NZer and having never been to the lower South Island I love every minute of that. Thanks Mado for your cheery manners.

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

He’s an absolute gem 💎thanks for watching and hopefully we can make more videos like this. You should visit! It’s your own country and life is too short to miss out.

What a nice man, that Kiwi bloke that took you around for a tour of the area. Those cheese toasted looks beautiful

Cheese rolls are awesome because you can make them and throw them in the freezer. Then you just need to pull one out and throw it in the oven to toast and your done! Hot snack 👌 (I’m originally from South Canterbury 😁) Great vid as always! Awesome to have the tour from Gordon

Good Kiwi Gordon. 👍 💫 😊 Show them in Ireland and Germany how hospitable we can be.😊

Ive always wanted to go inside the masonic lodge looks aweosme i lives down the rd for years

Gordon is a true blue southerner. What a legend.

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

He’s a gem 💎

Hi, thanks for the tour, I worked at the Smelter when I was younger. Hopefully it won't be there for ever. As you may have noticed it can be a very windy place. Stewart Island is very beautiful and peaceful, well worth a visit!! Even the journey to it can be real exciting.

Top man Gordan and family Cheers Glenn and mado Enjoyed

Gordon and gorgeous daughters 🤩 bloody legends 👍👍 now can another fine kiwi please introduce glen and Maddo to some steamed mussels 😊....I love mouse traps 😋 especially with spaghetti mmmmm💯🌺

Masons were not so much a cult. Freemasonry evolved from the guilds of stonemasons and cathedral builders of the Middle Ages. Modern day they are a group of well meaning people who look after their community and each other. They do have a belief in a Supreme Being, and I understand they will not discuss religion or politics at their meetings. (Not sure if that still applies). Anyway my father was a Returned Serviceman from WW2 and there was a Mason Lodge for Returned Servicemen and he attended meetings in that very building you were shown. When my father passed away the care his lodge showed to my mother and us as a family was very special.

@johnpaki1534

5 ай бұрын

Hiya, my grandfather and many others who togeather fought valiantly and brilliantly with the 28th maori btln ww2 did not go unnoticed, my grandfather told me about a week apon returning home a strange Whiteman turned up at the door with a letter to pass on, the letter told my granfather he was granted a automatic prestiege acceptance for duties served in ww2, this group was calked the Buffalo club, I have no idea what or who these guys are, but it sounds dodgy to me, can someone elaborate plse

@michellepatterson5487

5 ай бұрын

Freemasonry is a cult

@ros4645

5 ай бұрын

@@johnpaki1534 Wow John, what a great man your grandfather must have been. The 28th Battalion was a fiercesome an hugely respected Battalion. There is an exhibition at Te Papa at the moment that features a lot of information about them. Yes I don't know for sure, but I am sure I have heard of the Buffalo Club. I think it might have been a lodge. If anyone else knows we would love to hear. I know you can hear about Buffalo Club in the USA, but this sounds like something in Southland?

Thanks for these. I’m going on a solo adventure, travelling to Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin in 4weeks on my way to my sister’s in Perth WA. You’ve given me some ideas of things to visit and see.

What a fantastic host. Bluff is always a great place for a day trip.

It's beautiful down around Riverton as well. Thanks for another great video

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

we will visit soon actually :)

When i think of Bluff i think oysters, otherwise no nothing about it so thanks for showing me round

Glen, you are a healthy eater. Very obvious that you intentionally skipped eating the butter when you spread it far from where you bite it. 😁

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

These eating moments are a once off for me 😂😂 I eat healthy 80percent of the time id say!

@florence2720

4 ай бұрын

@@GlenAndMado Everything in moderation

Try Kings fish and chips if you get the chance. Beautiful fresh Blue Cod

outstanding, Gordan and family... pleased Gordan and family gave ya:s the guided tour cant wait for the BLuff oysters to be in session. cheers GLenn and mado

Hope you make it to the west coast to sample whitebait fritters

Love your vids... Freemasonary isn't a cult. Look into your Irish ancestry... It's more of a military order... Not for just the rich... Thanks for treating us to your travels... I haven't been to these places for sooo long... Love it.

Love your videos Glen and Mado. I would really love to see you learn some pre-colonisation history. Every place you visit has a history that pre-dates the arrival of the British. It’s beautiful, fascinating and sad. Our Māori culture is something you will not experience anywhere else in the world.

@sonnyday6830

5 ай бұрын

oh jeeze! here we go

@zumbafitnesswithcharyl3354

5 ай бұрын

@@sonnyday6830it’s ok to see both you know. Here we go yourself!

Its true the raw material comes from Queensland and Northern Territory Australia, but I think most of the processed aluminium is exported to Japan.

It used to be the MASONIC LODGE hmmm

20 years ago I was in that part of the world. I took a ferry to Stewart Island from Bluff. Me and a friend did a lot of hiking on Stewart Island.

Bluff is the southern most town in NZ. It's hardly the Riviera but I'm glad I finally ticked it off my bucket list.

Just watched this, Enjoyed alot. Amazing at the end of video you are parked across the road from my old house thats up on the bank, Corner of Lithgow and Trent streets. Lived there in my teen years. Now living Waimate. :)

@GlenAndMado

3 ай бұрын

Haha New Zealand is a small world!

@Patricia.rogers

3 ай бұрын

@@GlenAndMado Can say that again :) lol

Great post.Back in the 1950's 60's 25 percent of New Zealands GDP came from Bluff fisheries. Gordon's a good one eyed bugger 😊

Hey Glen & Mado, yea the mousetraps are a bit of nostalgia for us kiwis as we’d always make them as kids. You get a coupla eggs, cheese & corn & whisk it all up & chuck it under the grill, simple but filling 👌

If you watched the movie "The Fastest Indian" played by actor Antony Hopkin, The Beach you are on Oreti is where the real Burt Munro, Tested his Indian Motor cycle. He then went to America to race at Bonneville Utah's Salt lake. Herbert James "Burt" Munro was a motorcycle racer from New Zealand, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at Bonneville, on the 26th of August 1967. This record still stands; Munro was 68 and was riding a 47-year-old machine when he set his last record. You must watch the movie.

I remember going to a formal masons function at the Masonic lodge in the late 1970s as it was called then. I'm sure you will both enjoy your visit. Nice job Gordon!

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

Honestly didn’t know what it was till someone explained to us after!

@s.d.n.k

5 ай бұрын

@@GlenAndMado Just to add to @fozzienz7616 comment regard Bert Munro, two things of interest. Bert used Oreti beach for his bike speed tests etc & Where Gordon dropped you guys off in Lithgow Street, further along that road, around the bend towards Tay street, beside the long since closed Lithgow Intermediate school (if any off it remains) was an empty section where a replica house & workshop was built for the movie "The worlds fastest Indian"

Invercargill is famous for its toasted cheese rolls. Mousetraps was a lot plainer than those ones lolol.

And no one gave you a taste of mutton bird. Normally I would have it in a boil up but some locals I met ran home and got me a freshly Roasted bird and damn that was yumdisious. Also did you try paua as well as Bluff Oysters?

It is ridiculously expensive to visit Stewart Island now - I've been once and would love to go back, but a holiday there from Dunedin would cost me the same as a holiday to Australia or the Pacific Islands. It's a bit sad, really - just for the wealthy now 😓

Surely you’d offer the man a coffee!

@GlenAndMado

5 ай бұрын

We got him a box of fast bastard pies 🥧 🫣 😂

@lindaclifton2460

Ай бұрын

Fat Bastard pies…not Fast….mouse trap has a mix and it has egg in it……best place to eat in Bluff is Hazes restaurant they have indigenous food blue card, Paua whitebait titty birds cooked lots of different ways, roasted salted, stewed and cold. They sell Paua chutney,Titty bird pate and much more crayfish, scampi, farmed abalone, and most of all Bluff oysters. Bluff is a beautiful town if you know what is there? Bluff has some great walks and tracks… I live in Invercargill but lived for 14 yrs in Bluff.. loved it.. the Eagle Hotel has good cheap clean rooms, and a warm bar and history of the Oyster boats… they also have a beautiful Māori 😮Marae in Bluff… look up our yearly Oyster Festival on utube.

Yeah the Tiwai aluminium smelter makes high grade aluminium and is low emissions because of the hydro electricity generation. It is owned by the Australian company Rio Tinto who have a very bad environmental and ethical reputation. The Tiwai smelter has caused environmental damage over its life that will cost about one billion dollars to clean up. Rio Tinto are refusing to pay. Toxins are leaking into the shallow seas where Bluff oysters are harvested.

Jesus - Bluff is minted now, but still I wouldn't move back yet

@GlenAndMado

23 күн бұрын

Haha it ain’t a bad spot!

Or aluminum as they say in the US 🙄

Looks like those old people has too many paua. Quota is 5

..what did the Irishman and German-woman say to the hospital Kiwi.. och it only cheese on toast .. German it’s just like ours in the south of Germany . Difference is your in our country ..very different better company 😂 joke .. safe travels you two ..strange mix tbh cheers from Queenstown 😊

The smelter is a little bt controversial because it relies on cheap electricity, a lot of it - around 13% of NZ's total electricity supply. There have been multiple plans over the years to close the plant when the price of electricity has made the economics marginal, and given the impact on the local Soutland economy, this has made it a political football. There are also environmental concerns about the disposal of toxic waste produced by the plant.

I'm sorry but I first read the title as ' incest local shows us bluff '😅😬

Didn't Mick Jagger say something about Invercargill when he was there lol

@maganalia

5 ай бұрын

The armpit of the world I think he said

@krisbowditch827

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 think I’ll take micks advice and give a wide birth 🙏

@shaneglover9583

5 ай бұрын

Hhhmmm

@kevinhope6182

5 ай бұрын

wide birth sounds painful @@krisbowditch827

i'm not going to say he has a 16 year old wife because that would be awkward.