Christchurch
I'm freezing!!!!!
That's the colour of my hands and feet - seriously, it's so cold, why did we come here in autumn?
Christchurch is really pretty though and very english. It has a river called Avon. There are pubs called 'The Victoria' and 'The Hog' and they have punts on the river and a cathedral. I keep getting a bit confused, because the architecture is English, the layout American, the style and cleanliness German, the tourists Japanese, the street names Maori, the food international and the season absolutely Christmas! Now, who wouldn't turn slighty schizophrenic with that?
After arriving into town, we twitched our way to our hostel which was surprisingly good, where we got the attic room and the most lovely thick soft duvets on our beds. Yay!
Got settled, then had a bit of a look around, but frankly, it was too cold and wet, we didn't spend too much time outside. All the trees in the parks are loosing their leaves and everything is red and golden. It's so pretty, so we spent some time taking pictures, before giving up struggling against the cold and went to an Indian for big fat hot curry - yummy!
We didn't want to leave there, it was nice and toasty - so we had lots of hot drinks. The ladies room was unfortunately right next to their freezer room and the ice cold air was blowing into it whenever you had to go, so everytime I came out, I had to have another hot drink, which meant I had to go back in and so it went...
Managed to tear ourselves away though after a while and made our way to an internet cafe at Cathedral Square where I'm writing this interesting blog for your reading pleasure. :-D
Soon to bed, soon to rise (we didn't, we overslept and got kicked out) and went to pick up our home for the next three weeks. It's called a 'spaceship', it's bright orange and basically a camper / peoplecarrier. It's named 'Mir', so in fact we have a Russian Spaceship. Hooray!
We'll start our way south in the morning!
That's the colour of my hands and feet - seriously, it's so cold, why did we come here in autumn?
Christchurch is really pretty though and very english. It has a river called Avon. There are pubs called 'The Victoria' and 'The Hog' and they have punts on the river and a cathedral. I keep getting a bit confused, because the architecture is English, the layout American, the style and cleanliness German, the tourists Japanese, the street names Maori, the food international and the season absolutely Christmas! Now, who wouldn't turn slighty schizophrenic with that?
After arriving into town, we twitched our way to our hostel which was surprisingly good, where we got the attic room and the most lovely thick soft duvets on our beds. Yay!
Got settled, then had a bit of a look around, but frankly, it was too cold and wet, we didn't spend too much time outside. All the trees in the parks are loosing their leaves and everything is red and golden. It's so pretty, so we spent some time taking pictures, before giving up struggling against the cold and went to an Indian for big fat hot curry - yummy!
We didn't want to leave there, it was nice and toasty - so we had lots of hot drinks. The ladies room was unfortunately right next to their freezer room and the ice cold air was blowing into it whenever you had to go, so everytime I came out, I had to have another hot drink, which meant I had to go back in and so it went...
Managed to tear ourselves away though after a while and made our way to an internet cafe at Cathedral Square where I'm writing this interesting blog for your reading pleasure. :-D
Soon to bed, soon to rise (we didn't, we overslept and got kicked out) and went to pick up our home for the next three weeks. It's called a 'spaceship', it's bright orange and basically a camper / peoplecarrier. It's named 'Mir', so in fact we have a Russian Spaceship. Hooray!
We'll start our way south in the morning!
posted by Phil and Tanja @ 9:47 PM
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