The George Christchurch

Okay, so I've been gone 2 and a half months and I've only just uploaded a welcome image/message. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

This is my first trip to Morocco and Northern Africa! I started to add some other places I've traveld on to this travelogue Just because I don't have digital pictures for most of the places I've traveld and I just hate to see that world map so empty. In ...

Hi there! It's been just over a week at my job. I'm doing housekeeping at the George hotel which is where Becca works. We see each other at lunch but other than that we are seperate which is good because we're happy to see each other, rather than ...

... bathe him and feed him and take him for walks EVERY day. Can't win 'em all. We had a sunny, picturesque drive back to Christchurch, through rolling hills, along lakes and bays. At one point though, we both thought that we were going the wrong way because ...

... backround and ended up prematurely finding out out one of the twists. On the cultral side of things, the arthouse cinemas of Christchurch have been visited with the highlight being the Argentine "Secret in their eyes" (or something like that). It's sort ...

... yes the rugby was all sold out but it was a good thing i didnt waste my money because on the night a thick pea-soup fog enshrouded Christchurch and i wouldnt have been able to see a thing!! As it happens we went to the pub and even the cameras on TV were ...

... plan for that. We got together with Jenny Lochhead (who lives here now) and her mate Blair to see the sights of downtown Christchurch (with Jenny) and a great afternoon at the Pegasus Bay Winery (with Jenny and Blair). We had a great time and a few ...

Next stop for work was CPIT - a Poly in Christchurch. Whereas Dunedin is often mentioned as having a Scottish feel, people told me that Christchurch is very English. About as English as Dick van Dyke it transpired. I spoke to a nice old lady in an antique ...

... to head to a nearby French seaside settlement called Akaroa. There we enjoyed a relaxing few days before heading back to Christchurch to meet George's sister (Dora) and her boyfriend (Yiannis) who were travelling with us for two ...

We love Christchurch!!! Ok, the east-coast sunny weather may have helped but we adore the scale and ease of this university and cathedral city. We also loved seeing Bek, Jenny & George again after nearly a week apart and we quickly settled into a ...

... at work with his well behaved dogs and then helping out a little in the wool shed!!  Then we headed back to Christchurch where we said our Goodbyes to Gordon the Camper - our faithful friend! All in all we have had an amazing time in New ...

... been there on Monday or Wednesday, we would have paid $13.00. We were quite pleased with our luck! We say the George Clooney movie Michael Clayton. We liked it pretty well. Our day ended with dinner at an Indian restaurant that was wonderful. We ...

... . We simply stayed in the hostel but it was really cool. A local cross dresser spent some time with us outside (I just called him George) before passing out on the street it was pretty funny - We woke him up in style but he then just carried on ...

... room type which we booked (on top of the usual amenities) and they also gave us a teddy bear that we were allowed to take home; George the bear. He's got a tag around his neck saying that he's led a nice life in the hotel, but to take him home with you ...

... and text messages from family, wishing us well. By the time it was 10:30, we left in the rain (thank goodness the George provided complimentary umbrellas to use while staying there) to go to the department of internal affairs, on the way picking up our ...

Hi everyone, Well Christchurch is a lovely place but very reminiscent of Belfast - you can see by the images that some of the architecture is amazingly the same. Paddy found it very eerie.  The earthquake has certainly done some damage but most of ...

... chips (or fush and chups as the locals say) and had a wander along the beach before catching the TransCoastal train back to Christchurch. The first part of the journey as gorgeous as the trainline hugged the coast for over an hour, and there was a ...