We've had a very quiet couple of days here in Christchurch, killing time until our flight out of New Zealand at 6.35am on Monday morning. Yesterday we were going a little bit stir crazy but today has been nice. I woke Jim with the news they were showing reruns of the Liverpool vs. Fulham and Manchester City vs. Arsenal matches on the hostel TV; I have never seen him spring out of bed so fast and I even got a hug! He is going to be glued to Sky Sports from Saturda...

Today we've officially said goodbye to long distance bus travel for the forseeable future, completing our final stint on the Magic Bus. Jim is over the moon! We left Tekapo early this morning and had a relatively short journey to Christchurch, stopping only at Geraldine for breakfast. Jim was knackered so napped all afternoon whilst I went for a walk to get my bearings. Christchurch is meant to be like England and there's a cathedral, road names like Worcester ...

We had another start this morning, getting back on the bus at 8.15am ready to leave Dunedin. But before we left the city we stopped off at Baldwin Street, officially the world's steepest street. When stood at the bottom of the hill I was full of bravado and was noisily proclaiming it had nothing on Sheffield. Ten minutes later however, I was stood at the top of it trying not to vomit - they win, it is steep. We carried on with our packed day of sightseeing, stop...

Catch up blog alert! We had a good day yesterday in Dunedin. Jim hadn't seen the sights so we covered them all in half an hour and then went to the cinema to see Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais. Not too bad and certainly funnier than Simon Pegg's last attempt! After that I did some window shopping and then we went out for drinks to the Monteiths brewery pub with our lovely room mate Ross at night. Jim was wiser than me and went to bed before 1am whilst I decided ...

We dragged our sleepy arses onto the Magic Bus at about 7.45 this morning, bound for Dunedin. The route took us through Cromwell and Alexandra, arriving in the most Scottish of New Zealand's cities (Dunedin is the Celtic word for Edinburgh) at around 1pm. We've landed ourselves an AWESOME hostel here and it's just off the Octagon, the central hub of the city where you find the Town Hall, a statue of Robbie Burns, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Dunedin Public Art G...