Day 1 Sydney to Christchurch to Ashburton We had an eventful start to our trip of the "land of the long white cloud" and sheep with a difficult taxi driver for our trip to Sydney airport, a delayed flight with Virgin Australia and on arrival in Christchurch a hire car with no keys, eventually these were found and we then on our way in our red Corolla. We had only driven about 10km before we saw our first sheep of the trip. We drove to Ashburton for our first n...