After an eight hour wait at Cairns airport, 3 planes and 2 taxi’s, we arrived at our guesthouse, Racecourse Backpackers Hostel in Christchurch. Our first impressions of N.Z. were that it reminded us of home, not solely because the guesthouse was on Epsom Road and next to a racecourse but everything else from the weather (tipping it down) to the landscape, however I’m sure this second similarity would soon change. Our new campervan – later to be dubbed Myrt...