Nelson

We like Nelson. It's a nice little town, nothing spectacular, but it has a grand cathedral in the middle of town on a hill with these big steps leading up to it. It's very nice and the town itself is very historic.

Apparently that's where some Maori chiefs killed a number of Western immigrants when there was a misunderstanding about some land trade or other, which was a bit of a bummer to say the least.

Other than that, we found a lovely pub by the beach! It's called the Honest Lawyer and is like an English country pub with a thatched roof. We walked on the beach and had a drink and then, well then I went to the dentist, because I couldn't put up with my tooth any longer.

I needed a root canal there and then. After a couple of injections, she did her drilling thing - it shook my entire head and felt like those big drills they use on the street when they open up the asphalt - and turns out that the nerve was dead and it must have been like that for a while. She was surprised that I didn't have more pain earlier and there I was, having felt stupid the last couple of days for having a tooth ache and thinking that maybe I was just being a wimp. Well, I wasn't.

So after we sorted that out, it kind of hampered the rest of the evening, because I was scared to drool every time I open my mouth, so we went to the cinema and watched Spiderman 3. It was alright and did take my mind of it.

And that was Nelson!