Academy Motor Lodge Christchurch

... 1508; 97; המוזי 88;ון כמעט 2 מליון פריטי 01; בעלי חשיבו 14; לאומי 14; ובין לאומי 14;.
אחד החלקי 01 ...

... up with 2 Americans from the Mid-West that both live in LA? Weird.

OK back to the airport…Armed with nothing more than a little map from the information desk and fear of Josh driving on the left side of the road, we took off. Even though it was about 7pm at this point, we decided we’d hit the road instead of staying in Christchurch. Being that we didn't have any accommodations set up along the way, that might not have been the best idea, but we left CC anyway.
Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand rucamuffin

... t that simple this time! We got to Christchurch Airport and could not see our flight number on the TV screens. We couldn’t see a desk for Air Pacific (the airline printed on our tickets) anywhere. We had to fly to Auckland initially, and then fly from Auckland to Fiji. We thought we were supposed to be in the domestic terminal, but we checked at the international terminal too (same building – just down the hall!) Nothing at all. I ...

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... we arrived in Franz Josef just in time to book onto the
heli-hike the next morning at 11am.It was with great excitement that we
woke to the same blue skies and as we made our way down the road for
the bus to the heliport. There seemed to be a few clouds near the top
of the glacier but it was pretty much there in all it's magnificence
apparently waiting to welcome us. Not suspecting a hint of trouble,
we first got a ...

... ok, until the cranked up the fake storm and the wind chill factor kicked in - then the temperature went down to -16 degrees and that was awful and unbelievably cold!!! Josh and Kate sensibly hid in the fake igloo there and after the 'storm' had finished had a great time sliding down the ice slide. After that we went and watched the very cute 'Little Blue Penguins' being fed. There was a good interactive room with different exhibits about Antarctica and a movie to watch. It was ...

... mois et Emilie une autre compagne de l'ITHQ. En leur compagnie nous avons profite de la region et celebre en grand les 24 ans de Sabine. Etienne et Karla, des amis du Quebec et de l'ouest canadien, sont aussi reaparus dans le decor, ayant decide de demenager sur l'ile Sud plut tot que prevu afin de travailler plus longtemps pour un meme employeur. Simon a eu la chance de jouer au frisbee golf avec Etienne. La bande de L'ITHQ s'est aussi ...

... Coast to Greymouth on the West Coast. We spent nine hours on the train, with a one hour break in the middle. We were picked up at our motel at 8:00 in the morning by our shuttle, and we were dropped off at the Railway station. We got to rest in the lounge for about 20-25 minutes. It was really nice, because some of us had a cold. We boarded the Transalpine train and headed off on our adventure through ...

... and think it's naff, we can hop back in and move on swiftly. On the way to Kaikoura we enjoyed a drive along the coast, passing black sand beaches and the bluest sea we have ever seen. We stopped off at Ohau Point Seal Colony and watched the young pups flopping around on the rocks and learning to swim ... they were so cute!!! Lois was being chased by bees so we made it a short stop. We reached Kaikoura and mooched about and did the usual scouting for suitable ...

... other's presents we decided that we couldn't be in the southern hemisphere for Xmas without going to the beach, so we got in the car and headed to Sumner beach, which was about 20 mins out of the centre.



The beach itself was lovely, even if the sand was the colour of mud?!

It was nice and hard though, so Hutchy & I played a bit of footie before he got bored, leaving me to play by myself for about the next 2 hours ...