Burning questions for 2012

If the National Sevens was still being held in Palmerston North, do you think it’d be getting 4000-5000 punters through the gates each day? 

Winnies, Ballarat, Buffalo Club, Bar Up and now Zephyr bar. Is Mike Burgess Queenstown’s new bar baron? 

Or is Good Group’s Al Spary still the big swinging dick on that front? 

Speaking of bars, how many of the ones up for sale right now will still be available at the end of the year? 

Harry’s, anyone? 

Is the number of bars up for sale perhaps an indication there are too many bars in Queenstown? 

Or is the fact there’s one liquor licence for every 56 men, women and children a better indicator? 

Or is the fact you can buy a handle of beer for $2.50 an even better indicator? 

Pint, anyone? 

Sick of looking at Hendo’s Hole on the way into Queenstown? 

Won’t it be so much better when there’s a ginormous supermarket to look at instead? 

Any bright ideas on how to pay for upgrades to Queenstown’s flagging infrastructure? 

Bed taxes, anyone? 

Feeling left out because you don’t mountain bike in summer? 

Is that now the equivalent of not skiing or snowboarding in winter? 

Fergburger, Fergbaker, FergCandleStickMaker? 

Maybe not? 

Cath Gilmour for mayor? 

Adrian Bailey for mayor? 

Surely he’d be in the running? 

Jonathan Dixon for mayor? 

Not funny? 

But if he was in charge, wouldn’t we at least see more urgency behind the push for a functioning CCTV surveillance system downtown?

Sir Michael Hill for mayor? 

Hoping he’ll bust out those striking multi-coloured pants for the New Zealand Professional Golf Association Pro-Am? 

What are the odds that New Zealand’s next top tennis professional comes from Queenstown? 

Is Bunker the coolest bar in town? 

Did me asking that question just make the place a little less cool? 

Does the opening of the roof at Winnies ever get old? 

Ditto, fire on the bar at Skybar? 

Run a red light at the Kawarau Bridge yet? 

Should Queenstown’s second set of traffic lights be installed at that notorious two-lane roundabout near Queenstown Airport? 

Boot camp or bikram? 

Or both? 

Appalled that Mountain Scene photographed Orlando Bloom coming out of the local movie theatre? 

But do you remember anything else from that week’s edition? 

Does tourism operator Off Road’s occupation of the lone free all-day parking spot on Shotover Street get up your nose? 

Or is that an example of entrepreneurial Queenstown cheek at its very best? 

Hoping for a repeat of the Lake Hayes A&P Show lawnmower race punch-up? 

Or is there more chance of a brawl between drivers for Queenstown Taxis and new rival Green Cabs? 

Why are there so many guys wearing sunnies strolling up and down Queenstown Bay of late? 

Mint views? 

Taken in a sunset while lying on the beach at Queenstown Bay yet? 

What are you waiting for? 

Has service around town improved since Queenstown Resort College started upskilling people a few years back? 

Still with the person you pashed at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve? 

Do you even remember their name? 

Living the dream?