Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Christchurch
It was our final night with everyone in Christchurch and the driver took us to an Irish bar, Mickey Finns, where it was nearly as cheap to buy a 2 pint jug as a 1 pint glass. We had a random night and with team Japan an Bryony we were up dancing to the live band.
The following day Dave and I went on the tram, went to the local museum and saw an exhibition on the Anartic and we climbed up the Cathedral Tower which I found a nightmare and suddenly decided jet boating wasn't so bad after all! We caught up with Wayne (from the east cape) and his girlfriend and with team Japan and Bryony we went to Dux de Lux, NZ's best pub for dinner (and it has it's own brewery), another couple of pubs and we ended up in Mickey Finn's again, dancing to the same band who acknowleged our return. We got Bryony up on stage playing guitar an keyboard which was good. Poor girl by the time we let her go she was only going to get a few hours kip before her flight to Sydney.
We left Christchurch on 3rd Jan with Nemo's cousin taxi and drove north to Kaikoura. The weather had been so bad that they hadn't been able to do whale watching or dolphin watching tours for five days and we were unlucky too. It was a nice town and sunny but colder than anyone place shown on the weather forecast - just our luck and we were pleased we had change our plans and were no longer staying two days. We did get a chance to catch up with friends of our friend Dee.
So here we are now in Christchurch again, after getting a shuttle back down. We are flying to Auckland this afternoon and then getting a bus up to somewhere near Paihia, the bay of islands.
We are going sailing ....! We have two days being trained and if we pass we get to take a 20ft yacht out on our own for 3 days. Should be fun. There is also no internet on board - so this is us signing off for about a week.
Happy New Year to all of you. :-)
The following day Dave and I went on the tram, went to the local museum and saw an exhibition on the Anartic and we climbed up the Cathedral Tower which I found a nightmare and suddenly decided jet boating wasn't so bad after all! We caught up with Wayne (from the east cape) and his girlfriend and with team Japan and Bryony we went to Dux de Lux, NZ's best pub for dinner (and it has it's own brewery), another couple of pubs and we ended up in Mickey Finn's again, dancing to the same band who acknowleged our return. We got Bryony up on stage playing guitar an keyboard which was good. Poor girl by the time we let her go she was only going to get a few hours kip before her flight to Sydney.
We left Christchurch on 3rd Jan with Nemo's cousin taxi and drove north to Kaikoura. The weather had been so bad that they hadn't been able to do whale watching or dolphin watching tours for five days and we were unlucky too. It was a nice town and sunny but colder than anyone place shown on the weather forecast - just our luck and we were pleased we had change our plans and were no longer staying two days. We did get a chance to catch up with friends of our friend Dee.
So here we are now in Christchurch again, after getting a shuttle back down. We are flying to Auckland this afternoon and then getting a bus up to somewhere near Paihia, the bay of islands.
We are going sailing ....! We have two days being trained and if we pass we get to take a 20ft yacht out on our own for 3 days. Should be fun. There is also no internet on board - so this is us signing off for about a week.
Happy New Year to all of you. :-)
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Marg’s and Dave's first set of photos have arrived now. These are the ones from Singapore and Australia and a selection of them are here
If you didn't see the other pictures of Samoa and some of NZ in my previous link, they can be found here
If you didn't see the other pictures of Samoa and some of NZ in my previous link, they can be found here
Not sure if anyone has claimed it... but Jon can't work out how to get on the blog but has claimed Baldwin Street in Dundedin as world's steepest street.
Will check later to see if someone beat him to it.
THANKS DARREN FOR SORTING PHOTOS.
Will check later to see if someone beat him to it.
THANKS DARREN FOR SORTING PHOTOS.
latest set of photos have arrived and there are some crackers, especially the fancy dress ones.
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