Christchurch

I'm in Christchurch New Zealand!! It's SO nice here, it's such a lovely city and it totally reminds me of Cambridge. (Which is intentional I believe, they do punting on the river here using punts brought over from Cambridge or something). The city's very cute and small and just generally lovely. Today a guy in a bar called me "Matey Potatey" which really made me realise I was in NZ. Wicked.

We arrived at the airport at 4am local time yesterday, after our flight was delayed. As a cunning money-saving measure, instead of heading to a hostel we found some, uh, cosy bench seats and bedded down in the airport, which was initially rubbish but after a while, I managed to sleep some and it was cool. We got to our hostel at lunchtime yesterday and although we were really tired, we did succeed in exploring the city some. In the evening, as a staying-awake measure, we went to see "In Her Shoes": SO good, Toni Collette is brilliant.

Today we've been up in a cable car to this mountain which overlooks the city and the harbour...it was so cool, amazing views with the scenery starting to be reminiscent of Lord of the Rings.

We start our Kiwi Experience tour tomorrow morning.