For all the leaflets that I have amassed on our travels (and that really is a lot, I like them!) we failed to acknowledge that the world famous tranzalpine train is only possible to do in one day FROM Christchurch. Hmm, looks like we'll be staying the night there then!Rated as one of the top train journeys in the world, we embarked on it backwards! So whilst everyone else was hurriedly re-boarding after their lunch stop, we were simply boarding!!!! Not letting a ...

So another town another brewery to tour. This time Monteiths probably our favoured beer from New Zealand. Our guide was called Dougal which amused us as he wasn't Irish but did like a drink!!! So after being shown around the brewery it's off to the bar for the tastings the best bit of the tour. After sampling all 7 beers we are now clear in which ones are our favourites. Tricky job but was needed to be done. The evening was spent watching the All Blacks beat Cana...