Day 19 Christchurch to Timaru Last morning in Christchurch, I for one will be sad to leave our suite, or should I say house at the Heritage Hotel. Bill cooked a nice fry up whilst I went into the lobby for my ½ hr free wifi to catch up briefly on emails and check on Bill's mum on the video camera. Received a worrying email from Karl at Tailor Made saying he had heard we had missed our flight from Fiji to NZ and was everything OK. Obviously as we are here i...

Day 18 Christchurch Our first full day in Christchurch. We had bought some groceries from a late night store last night so decided that we would have breakfast in our suite, or should I say house, cause it's the size of one. Put a load of washing into the machine; it would be silly not to take advantage whilst we've got the use and went out sightseeing. Most of the central city is walking distance from the hotel but there is a free yellow shuttle bus that tak...

Day 17 Fiji - New Zealand The day dawned bright and sunny again after last nights rain but really humid; the sort of weather that when you get out of the shower you are as wet again 5 mins later! Breakfast then a lovely walk along the beach. Got talking to some Canadians in the next villa who were from Nova Scotia also escaping the winter; they were also travelling to South Island NZ for their daughters wedding. Eleven o'clock pick up arrived far too quickly...

A quick stop over at Auckland airport to change flights to Christchurch and free internet access so a perfect time for an update to the blog. Left the Fiji Resort & Spa this morning at 11:00 to transfer to Nadi airport for our 14:00 flight to Auckland. Weather still hot and sultry but rain threatened for later so maybe just as well we're off. We have been extrodinarily lucky so far - so long may it continue! Bit of a delay with the flight, first they coul...