...I get up refreshed and prepare for the trip back...I do my last shopping - you'd be surprised but what do I take back to Belgium on this last day? Beer and chocolate! :D...I visit the moving Quake City - a multimedia museum devoted to earthquakes in the region and realize walking around that the devastating effects of the 2011 quake still very much in evidence in central Christchuch...I'm concluding New Zealand is crazy about dairy: every other hotel I...

...it's beautiful and sunny and I am really grateful for this after the recent rains...I discover Christchurch is NZ's second city to have Uber, after Auckland of course...I notice the existence of interesting sounding brands of home appliances here, which I assume must be local: Westinghouse, Parmco, RobinHood, Omega, Fisher&Paykel......I eat my next to last cooked NZ breakfast at a great little place called Brigitte's...taking advantage of great wea...

...I get up and drive to nearby Moeraki beach to see the beautiful round boulders the area is famous for. Despite gale force wind which makes my car wobble on the road, it is quite sunny and the beach is full of tourists. I find it quite commercial but nice....I push on to a desolate mountain area, first on narrow country highways then on a bad gravel road for 25 km to see Mt Sunday, which played the location of the city of Edoras in Lord of the Rings movies. Unf...

...I note that license plates in NZ are not associated with the locality where a car is registered, like in Belgium...I notice a particular local flavor of ice cream, chocolate and cakes: hokey pokey! It's basically honeycomb toffee. And in the case of ice cream it's vanilla with chunks of such toffee!...I'm still puzzled as to what my how my AA card works. It's a like regular customer/discount card which I use at gas stations and supermarkets. Th...

...I decide I won't do the last trek after all - I'm tired and deserve some rest. No more hiking from now....I drive to Dunedin through very scenic areas, as always. And I pass what must be the fruit supply center for the whole country because signs advertising cherries for sale pop up literally every 100 m. Expensive though....in Dunedin I visit Baldwin Street, the world's steepest street. My feeble car barely makes it up there, especially that's...