After a smooth crossing over the Marlborough Sounds, we arrived in Picton and headed for the campsite. The following morning we drove to Nelson, where we stopped for some lunch supplies (and a big argument at McDonalds where we'd stopped for coffee) and then headed towards Christchurch (still together). We had planned to spend the night at Hamner Springs but when we got close we realised it was only a short hop to Christchurch, so decided to spend our last three nights in NZ there instead (two at the Papanui campsite and one in a city centre hotel after we dropped off the van).
This is a cat who lived at the campsite, he'd obviously gone for the 'lion cut'.We had an easy couple of days in Christchurch; packing, clearing out the van and packing up a box to send back home - which was really expensive because their international economy service is still airmail - they don't do surface mail, like we used in Hong Kong. On Wednesday we met up with Sally, a friend of a friend who very kindly took us up to a chocolate cafe overlooking Governor's Bay where we had lovely hot chocolate.. Then it was back to the magnificent home she shares with her partner John, for dinner with their friends Thomas and Rina. Rina is a landscape photographer. Sally and John run tours on the South Island and their website is here.
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