Max and Paddy

We've hired a campervan to tour New Zealand, staying on various camspites as we travel around the countryside. It's bringing back lovely memories of our time in France when we first met. When we arrived at Christchurch airport there was amessage for us to report to "Lost Luggage". Luckily it was only my bag that had been diverted to Auckland and there wasn't anything in there that I needed just clean clothes and toiletries. It was delivered to the campsite the next day to my annoyance, I didn't have any excuse now.

We stayed in Christchurch for 2 nights and it lived up to its name of a garden city. The botanic gardens (our 3rd in 2 weeks!) really reminded us of an English country garden. Here's Bec under an enormous tree and a view that resembles a Constable painting.

70% of researchers who travel to the Antartic leave from Christchurch airport and so they have a fascinating Antartic centre there where you're taken on vehicles that are used in the South Pole, are subjected to Antartic conditions (pic of me in the wind chill room) - I should have worn socks that day, it was a bit nippy in there - and given a guided tour by the voice of Sir Edmund Hilary.