Christchurch

So I realized this morning that I'm not spending 4 days in Christchurch, it's 3... which is a really good thing to have realized because my whole trip would have been thrown off if I had missed that bus tomorrow morning!

Christchurch has been nice, It's a pretty sleepy small town. While the population of 350,000 may suggest that it'd have more of a small city feel, much of the city shuts down by 5pm and there's not much going on in the evenings. Yesterday I visited the Christchurch Cathedral- one of the more famous spots in town- and climbed to the top. Afterwards I went punting (gondola style boat) on the river Avon, which was really nice and relaxing... reminds me of when I went paddle boating with Queen's friends through the Amsterdam canals =)

The most amazing thing about Christchurch so far was the flight in. The views over the southern alps were magnificent. Later today I'm going to the cable-car gondola about 20 mins out of the city, so I should be able to get some great photos from there. Unfortunately, the hostel I'm staying at has limited bandwith, so I can't upload photos to the blog unless I want to pay a crapload of money. I'll post a few next time I have unlimited wifi!

Next post will be from Queenstown in a couple of days!

Cheers,

Hakim