Drive to Christchurch Christchurch botanical gardens Art Gallery Drove up to Christchurch today - after a brief walk along the river's edge at Lake Tekapo we headed off. This was about a 3 hr drive, mostly with amazing scenery and more sheep! Unfortunately, either due to operator error or software error, the Tom Tom took us right past our first destination (cookie time) and it wasn't until 20km later that we realised. Fortunately we were well a...

Drive to Mout Cook 2 x walks at base of mt Cook Off to Mt Cook today - as per usual, the weather is absolutely perfect with a clear sky, however the previous nights had brought snow - so the mountain and surrounding areas were covered with Snow. The drive there was once again spectacular, passing bright light blue lakes and stunning surroundings, with sheep crossing the road. Took one hour to make it to the base of the mountain, where there are a nu...

Drive to Lake Tekapo Observatory Lookout Winter Park (Hot pools) Off to Lake Tekapo today, so checked out of the hotel and headed off. A lot of the journey is costal and the views along the way are just amazing. I followed the Tom Tom, which took us the quickest way - but certainly not the "normal" way. It took us through sound very windy road up and down mountains for one part - but it did result in some amazing scenery and did cut a...

Castle Movie "Art" Gallery Brewery Tour & Dinner Out to the Otago Peninsula today, mainly to see the Castle, built on the highest point. The castle grounds were reasonably average, but the location had a great view over the peninsula. We took a self guided tour through the castle, only built about 150 years ago but a man with a shady family background. The castle is interesting, it's not amazing - and is reasonably small for ...

Travel to Dunedin Dunedin Botanical Gardens Today was started earlier than expected with a piercing alarm sounding like an evacuation alarm (or a air raid siren) at 3am! (found out in the morning that the local fire brigade use the siren to notify the volunteers to come in, which apparently causes a lot of problems with the tourists, especially those from countries where they have been bombed). Anyhow… We packed in the morning and headed off to Dunedin. ...