Preparing for home

Trip Start Feb 03, 2008
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Well as I am heading back home a week on Sunday, It seems quite appropriate that I have found my way to Christchurch.  Christchurch is the most English of New Zealand's cities as the local tourist board likes to tell everyone.  As you'll see from the photos the buildings are very English in appearance, the street names are also all names of English towns or cities and they've even got an Avon River!  Anyway I got here yesterday afternoon from Kaikoura where I did the whale watching and met some pretty cool people in the hostel and headed out on the town.  I was glad to speak to Helen on the phone last night and I think I also spoke to Dec and Browny but you'll have to forgive me as I was slightly pissed at the time.  It was 1am here after all.  I was very disappointed to hear that the Ozzy Powered lads lost their big top of the table clash against Longbridge. 
Anyway today I've been wandering around, checking out the sights.  I've been down to the botanical gardens - I'm becoming quite an aficionado of botanical gardens now, they seem to have them everywhere and I seem to have been to all of them, but it suddenly struck me today that we have some in Brum and I've never been -
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 .  Maybe I'll visit them when I get home, but then again, maybe I'll think about it and then just go to the pub.  Why change the habit of a lifetime?!  Anyway after the gardens I went to the Canterbury museum - yes another English reference, the state that Christchurch is in is called Canterbury.  This was quite interesting and it appears that Emma's new car may have made it into the museum, see if you can guess which photo I am referring to - answers on a postcard!  I then wondered up to Cathedral Square which actually reminded me a little bit of Brum in the fact that they had a big open space around the cathedral.  But then I remembered that Brum (and the rest of England for that matter) is full of granny-robbing, knife-wielding, hoodie-wearing nobheads who like to say "Breadbin" to each other a lot!!!  And the whole Colmore Row area is plagued by gothic looking 15 year olds who like to sniff glue in the graveyard, or something like that anyway.  Oh I'm looking forward to coming home, it's such a fantastic place!!!  In fact I'm looking forward to coming home so much that I'm trying to prepare myself by going out for a curry in a minute and then I'll be going to the pub for dessert.  The backpacker pub here sells anything at $4 (about 1 pound 70) so its wrong not to get pissed really!

See you all very soon - in fact too soon.
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