Back in Christchurch again we met up with another Irish paddler, Mike and his Chinese wife, Alice, who he met and married in New Zealand, but who had just returned from a year in Canada. International? The next morning we got up early to see as much of Christchurch as possible before our flight back up to Wellington that evening.We started by following the Lonely Planet walking tour from Christchurch Cathedral to the Botanic Gardens ending in the Museum, having seen all the sights along the way. After lunch Susan went back to the museum to see their special display – the Da Vinci machines that Seán and I had seen previously in Nelson. Unfortunately the school holidays had started that week, lasting for a fortnight of Susan’s visit, meaning that most places we went were pretty busy with parents and children making the most of their holidays.
Before we knew it, it was time to get back to the airport to fly back up to the North Island. Although our flight was delayed a small bit we made it back to Wellington without any problems. It’s pretty amazing how relaxed security is for internal flights here. So far we’ve taken five internal flights and on none of them have we had to produce any ID. When our flight from Auckland to Christchurch was delayed for the day we were free to go in and out of security as many times as we wished. For this flight back up to Wellington we didn’t go through any security of any sort! There was just a short corridor with the shops at one end and gates at the other end and no metal detectors or anything else to slow us down!
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the da vinci machines were great - if you're vaguely interested and they're in your town make the time to go - especially as some of them you can play with too!
I note you didn't mention here how Mammy Oosty jinxed my jeans on day one and that I finally gave up on them and got a new pair - which went on in the shop and the old ones went straight in the bin outside - oops!
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