Last night was sadly our last night in New Zealand. Our flight to Sydney is not until 4pm, so we spent the morning exploring around Christchurch. Despite the devastation wreaked by the earthquakes and aftershocks, this is a vibrant city which is re-building itself in an interesting and innovative way. We spent a lot of the morning wandering around the museum. It had...
In the interests of experiencing everything about New Zealand, I managed on the drive from Mount Cook to Christchurch to meet the Kiwi police. As with everyone here, they were very friendly, even when issuing me with a speeding ticket! The rest of the journey went quite slowly …… We arrived in Christchurch about lunchtime and once we had checked in...
Since we arrived late, we stayed last night in Christchurch and then set off first thing this morning to head to Kaikoura. Kaikoura is about two and a half hours drive north of Christchurch and the route takes you through some beautiful countryside. It starts with rolling hills with vineyards in the valley and gradually gets more mountainous. The road weaves through...
Today started as my birthday. A delightful day spent in a tin tube at 40,000 feet travelling more or less due south at just over 500mph. The day finished just 15 hours later, leaving me with a truncated birthday. The reason? the international date line …. The international date line is an imaginary line roughly based on the meridian of 180° longitude. It goes...