Christchurch, New Zealand

Facts, Figures & Shrek

Christchurch, our first NZ city. Bodies eased themselves down from the bus after the long trip from Queenstown. The landscape on the way to Ch-ch reminded many of the Cariboo, sans sheep. Sheep, sheep sheep! The hills and paddocks were alive with them, as one well expected would be the...

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Shane & Norma on April 29, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: "Not Just Another Rugby Tour" - New Zealand, Samoa and Australia

Snowballs, Pints & Pies

Lindis Pass is a long way to come for a snowball fight, even by Kiwi standards! Leave it to forty-two crazy Canucks to ask the bus driver to pull over so they could test out NZ snow. Nobody was homesick., it was just too tempting not to have some good old Canadian fun! Snowballs flew...

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Shane & Norma on April 29, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: "Not Just Another Rugby Tour" - New Zealand, Samoa and Australia

Our first full day in Christchurch

Day - 9 Thursday 30th April 2009 Another early start to get the 7:15 am shuttle bus to Christchurch Railway Station for the 8:15 Tranz-Alpine Express to Greymouth. This excerpt from the advertising sums it up: Well before 8 am we were sitting in the comfy pre-booked seats with a great...

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Saros on April 29, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Hairy Animal 2009 World Road Trip

South Island... done!

Hello! We're back in Christchurch, where our tour of the south island started! After leaving Lake Tekapo (reluctantly), we headed to Wanaka. Wanaka was a nice place to chill out, but we only used the place as a brief stop to break up the journey to the Fiordlands. We left Wanaka to head to...

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Kav & Sara on April 24, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Round the world trip!!

New Zealand

Hey!!! Its been a while since our last blog entry and we've been pretty busy! We spent the last few days of Australia on the coast near Brisbane which was really quiet and chilled out. We looked at all our pictures from Australia and realised how fun its been here! On our final night before...

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Kav & Sara on April 6, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Round the world trip!!

New Zealand concludes...

Having finished our canoeing exploits in the Abel Tasman National Park, we embarked on a killer drive down the West coast to lake Wanaka. We managed just over 500km before it started to get too much, & too dark, so we stayed in a campsite just outside of Franz Josef. I am very glad that we did,...

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johnnoble on March 26, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: John's year off...

Nursing in New Zealand

It is Wed. pm and Colin is off to his weekly hockey game, so I will put down a few thoughts about my job. It is a strange time to start a job in a field I know relatively nothing about. I am hopeful that my brain has been exercised by doing my degree and I can absorb all the new things I am...

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RTW2009 on March 25, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: RTW/2009

Friday Afternoon

Glenna and I sat in the Sun and shared a few beer at Christchurchs favoutite brew pub. About a five minute walk from the hospital and a Stone's throw from center of town. Nice breeze as usual and temperature near 24. Just in case anyone thought we've got caught up in a never ending whirlwind of...

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RTW2009 on March 24, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: RTW/2009

Arriving

Kate picked us up at the airport as Heidi the recruiter we have dealt with for the past ten months had been transferred to Auckland. She took us for a brief tour of Christchurch but soon realized we were knackered and dropped us of at 287 Barbadoes Street our shared home for the next month. Our...

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RTW2009 on March 3, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: RTW/2009

Lyttleton

With bus passes in hand we caught the number 7 and set out for a day trip to the volcanic town of Lytleton. Glenna thougt it odd that people would pay $ 25.00 to take a Gondola to the top of the mountain when we were going to do it for $ 2.00 each on the bus. She soon found out the road to...

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RTW2009 on March 3, 2009 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: RTW/2009

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