6 posts tagged “christchurch”

Well today we left Christchurch, waved goodbye to Sam Neil (he lived on the same street where we were staying!!!), and caught the plane to Auckland ready for our departure...

We are chilling out at the minute, with our next stop Australia, we need some rest before our next big adventure.  So went went Christmas shopping, to buy things for each other.  It is not feeling like Christmas at all...  Everyone is wearing flip floips and shorts... its weird.

We then wathced Borat at the cinema and veged in fron of the TV, something you can't do all that often while travellling...aaahhh

Well, since we haven't got any transprt, Nicky dropped us off in towen and we had a look at the art markets and went for a wander round the center and looked in the shops.  We went for a lovely meal, treating ourselves from the money we got for the van.  We walked back through the park and got very lost, but its ok as the walk was nice. 

Back at the backpackers car market, we had people interested in the van.  We toook it for a WOF (similar to an MOT) and eventually negotiated a price for sale.  We had to say goodbye to the van.  It was quite sad but at the same time a weight off our minds.  I was quite amazed it only took 1 and a half days to sell.  We said goodbye and went back to Nickys for a BBQ and then went to the cinema to watch Casion Royal.

Well, we took the van to the backpackers car market and waited patiently all day for someone to come along and buy it.  Nobody came...

We made our way to Christchurch, and stopped to do some shopping... what a novelty and then went to Meet Nicky, a lady who we met in Bolivia who said we could stay at her house while in Christchurch.  We parked trhe van in her drive and then she took us out for a lovely meal.  We have a big day tomorrow...