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Hello everyone!
We are now in New Zealand and have been since Saturday. It's been really non-stop since we arrived so haven't had a chance to update until now. New Zealand is amazing, the scenery is stunning and there is loads to do. We have done loads already! Flew into Christchurch on Saturday, which is a lovely city - lots of old buildings, trams, punting on the river etc... We spent two days there and joined our tour on Monday. The set up is really good and we have covered so much ground already. It's also a small group - only about 20 and everyone is really nice. There are a couple of Swedes, a few Danes, a couple of Canadians along with us and some other English people.
Since Monday we have gone to see Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepard, hiked at the base of Mount Cook and the Southern Alps, done an overnight cruise around Doubtful Sound in Fjordland where we also went kayaking (Joe jumped in the water but regretted it as it was only 12 degrees! We are used to 30 degrees from Australia!) and came to Queenstown yesterday. We went to an ice bar last night which was great. It's all made of ice - even the glasses - and they kit you out in a coat, ug boots and gloves. Then this morning we did some horse riding around middle earth! The scenery was beautiful and we visited loads of the locations used in the filming. Joe's horse was actually used a horse of Rohan in the movie - film star! My horse failed it's first audition becuase it was too fast and won't stop, so you can tell that ride was fun!! lol!! This afternoon we took a gondola ride up to the highest point in Queenstown and then did a luge ride down in these little plastic go-kart things - great fun! So all good so far - we have loads of pictures to illustrate the above babble and will put them up soon!
Got lots planned for the next few days so no rest yet! We have a glacier hike planned for tomorrow at Fox Glacier, then a rugby game on Saturday back in Christchurch before we head on up to Nelson. Will fill you in asap!
Joe adds - New Zealand rocks!
Take care and speak soon,
Love Joe and Emily xxx
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