Christchurch

We set off for from Melbourne on our way to Christchurch on Friday evening. Our plane was delayed by three hours due to thunderstorms around Melbourne. We eventually arrived in Christchurch in the early hours of Saturday morning and didn't get to the hotel until 3am. This didn't help us to get over our mini-jetlag, New Zealand being two hours ahead of Melbourne.

Also not helpful was the complete lack of windows in our tiny day-glo hotel room, despite the space age alarm clock and mood lighting.

Compared to Australia, Christchurch looked surprisingly familiar to us Poms, with familiar British things such as...

... Christchurch Cathedral:



...the tiny river Avon meandering its way through the city, complete with a family of ducks:



...the most awesome ever fountains:



We only stayed in Christchurch for a short time before picking up our Spaceship campervan and heading south at a rate of knots.