Back in NZ Here's what I can remember of the first 2-3 weeks of our 2nd stint in NZ, we are going to be updating the later bits soon. We arrive back in Christchurch after a relatively trouble free and sporadically wonderful journey. Only issue was we hadn't printed out our onward itinerary from NZ without which we couldn't enter the country and so had to do some mad dashings around Sydney airport trying to get stuff printed out which was way more painful tha...

Tuesday 17th March - Thursday 19th March, 2009 From the rat race to a slower pace... The 29 hour flight wasn't half as bad as we imagined and after NZ customs inspected our hiking boots for any alien substances (fat chance on mine which had only been used around Heathrrow airport at this point!) we found ourselves taking the "$5 bus" into Christchurch, which cost us $7 each... trading standards?! Arriving on St Paddy's Day we soon found ourselves...