11 June 2011 What a great sleep – woke at 6.45am, breakfast in the basement dining room with the United Nations then back to the room to plan the day. Consulted the walking book (kindly supplied by our friend Colleen) and decided to do Bankside to Southwark one. Not sure what the story is here but not many people around early and when we stopped for coffee on southbank the café’s were only just opening. We went to Giraffe’s which was where we had been...

Tuesday night we had a farewell dinner with M&N at Browsers in Riccarton. The girls were in their usual high spirits and we had a lovely time. For Christchurch people this is well worth a visit – lovely meal and good price! By this time I was starting to feel quite nervous about the prospect of the big flight but was trying hard to put it to the back of my mind. The next morning we had until 2pm to do any remaining messages, feed the birds and tidy up th...