Wednesday 20 February 2008

Christchurch






















We just had a great visit with Maree and Grahame in Christchurch. It is a really nice city. We were very impressed with it. The food was excellent as well. I will leave you with Stephen's 'good things' and 'bad things' list. Oh- and I won't attach the video of Alan's juggling performance. I will send it to Athena and she can decide what to do with it!



Christchurch..1960s England with parks, flowers and tram rides

Good things
Hot thermal pools in Henmnet ideal for monsoon days
Nice volcanic ridges to view Diamond harbour and sprawling Christchurch
Alan getting roped in to providing assistance for juggling street theatre
Becky's friends Graham and Maree had a copy of the John Grisham book that I had left on the bed in Uruguay with only a few chapters to go.

Bad things
Getting stuck in the window of a rock shelter whilst playing tig with Bill's 6 year old
You don't legally need car insurance so all the 16 year olds buy old V8s and go racing round Christchurch at night showing off. I had to make do with a 1.3 Escort and take it to do the shopping
American Airlines screwing up the tickets again so that we have to run from one office to another to convince them to let us on the flight. And why do we have to go via Aukland when everyone else goes direct to Sydney?
New Zealand charges you 25 dollars to leave the country and you have to fill a form in that is supposed to be for New Zealanders only and then old people forget and hold you up in the queue to get onto the plane that you've just rushed across from the stupid internal flight from Christchurch that should have been organised properly in the first place from incompetant Trailfinders sales pillock.... Finally had to say goodbye to travelling chums Alan and Athena who are finishing their trip in Singapore and who have still got my book. -- Stephen Grant

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