Blog Day 226 Saturday 17th December 2011 Marahau This morning we make the most of our lie in before packing our stuff away and checking out of the hostel. We sit around in the hostel for a while until our new bus pulls up. Before getting on the bus we did make a sneaky trip into the bakery for a cheeky egg and bacon pie! The bus is about an hour late due to a pretty rocky ferry crossing. Once on the bus we make our way through the Marlborough vineyard a...

Blog Day 225 Friday 16th December 2011 Picton Today we are back on the stray bus at around 8.45 and making our way north to the town of Picton. Not exactly a stop we would have chosen to make but we didn't really have much of a choice in the matter. On the way we pull over at the Ohau Point Seal Colony. Here the seals can be seen on the rocks right next to the road. Our stop lasts for around 10 minutes and allows us to get some great photos. Picton is w...

Blog Day 224 Thurs 15th December 2011 Kaikoura So today we wave goodbye to Christchurch and the lovely Irish girls! We can't thank them enough for having us this past week! True Irish Gems! A cab picks us up from the girls place and drops us to the Antarctic Center, which is where the bus picks up. On the drive there our cab driver fills us in on where he was during the earthquakes, he also gives us little snippets of info about different areas as we drive ...

Blog Day 217 - Day 223 Thurs 8th - Wed 14th December 2011 Ok so this next section of blog is going to follow on in the same vein as Sydney and Melbourne. There were some days when nothing at all really happened and then there were other days when we ventured out and saw what was left of Christchurch. In the interest of keeping things moving we shall give you the vaguely interesting bits. Most days started off in the same way (Curtis style eggs) then we checked ...

Blog Day 216 Wed 7th December 2011 Fly to Christchurch! This morning we are up bright and early and down to the kitchen for some Curtis style eggs (these are going to now feature regularly in our breakfast diet I think). A few last bits are stuffed into the bags and before we know it the airport shuttle is here. We had had a good start to the day that is until we met the driver of our shuttle. Trevor the Thai! And yes he was Thai! Not saying that we have any...