We spent the morning getting up and eating breakfast and watching BBC World and drinking coffee and eating more breakfast and looking at the itinerary we had planned. Nessie looked at the itinerary and advised tweaking it here and there. Partly because she knows NZ well now, but mainly because we had made basic numeracy hour errors in calculating times and distances. It all looks much more possible now.
Then we went to pick up the car. This has to be the bargain of the holiday so far (admittedly only two days in). It's cost us $1000 exactly, which is about 390 pounds. (Still can't find the pound sign, useless non-British keyboard!). Split between us, we are getting the luxious Toyota Something for 25 days, for 130 pounds each. Picture to follow, Thought it would be better to have it parked in front of something interesting....
To try it out and make sure we didn't crash while trying to turn left and giving way to the cars coming towards us turning right (which is about the only rule of the the road that's different from the UK), we went to Sumner (where there's a curry house called "Indian Sumner" - do you see what they did there?)
It's about 5 miles away from Christchurch and it looks like this:
And like this:
There's a big outcrop of rocks with some roughly hewn and weatherworn (and very slippery) steps to climb up. And when you do, that's the view you get.
The weather looks beautiful, and indeed it is. But it is also only 8°C.
Was tempted to write "Specific Ocean" in a kind of reverse homage to all those people I have met in teaching who, despite their degrees, say such things as "Do you want a pacific one? Are we doing that on a pacific day?" Of which there are more than you might think.
£ - found it!
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