hello everybody well day 3 is now at an end. what a wonderful day! a nice sleep in was welcomed and a thorough a sleep i had as i was informed upon rising that a siren not unlike an air raid siren had gone off at 630 in the morning. id slept through it. we heard it again at breakkie and were informed by our hotel hosts that its the siren for the volunteer fire brigade, calling them to service so needs to be heard across the entire town to wake people etc. we wer...

Hello!!! ok so were finally here and started our holiday! the flight went off without a hitch and we arrived in christchurch to pick up our hire car and had a quick senic tour through the city on the way out. its a nice city but seems like its all suburbia, for one of the biggest cities of the south island its fairly small. but the towns and villages are even smaller. we headed out to arkaroa for our first night. its a small village on the banks peninsula in aka...