We arose and got showered, then grabbed some breakfast, the campsite had a microwave so managed to have warm Wheat Biscuits mmmmm. We then got on the road heading to the town of Oamaru. We parked up right next to the Sunday market and had a browse, treating ourselves to some fudge before heading over to the Whisky factory. The Whisky factory had 3 floors and on the top floor was an art exhibit, which we had a look around. After that we headed back down to the ta...

We arose in our car and stepped out into the cold rushed to the toilet then rushed back to our warm bed and fell back asleep for a bit hoping it would get warmer next time we woke. When we got up properly it was warmer…..but not much. We grabbed lunch, got a shower then drove into the town centre. After doing a couple of U-turns on dead end streets due to the 'Red Zone' (no access zone due to the earthquake) we found the Botanic Gardens, we were guided into a m...

On Friday 9th March it was an early start as the alarm sang "take my hand, walk with me, on a nice summers day'. We slapped it off and got up, quickly got refreshed, gobbled down some breakfast then took the massive 2 minute walk to the train station. 45 minutes later after 1 change we arrived at the airport, checked our bags in, were told we would not be allowed in New Zealand unless we had our outward flight booking printed so rushed round trying to get a print...

On Saturday 3rd March we had a nice lie in then spent the morning relaxing at Greg and Kim's catching up before we headed out to the City Centre. We had a nice walk around the Opera House area again then headed through the Botanic Gardens, seeing lots of large spiders and flying foxes. We then headed towards the main street for the Mardi Gras festival, we waited for a couple of minutes and then Kim checked her I-Phone and realised the parade didn't start for anot...

After leaving Terry and Cheryl's a bit later then hoped on the Thursday we headed on our way, thankfully with Sat Nav to guide us. We drove solidly for the rest of the day, just stopping to switch drivers and to pee. We had a bit of a scare when the petrol light came on a bit earlier then we had expected it to and we had to drive for another 90km's before the next town. We checked our phones which had no signal so spent the drive holding our breath, counting down...