Our ride on the city tram. The tram has been part of city life as far back as the the 1800s to 1954, horse drawn and electric trams ran services to many parts of the city and suburbs. It was years later they decided to restore the old trams and bring them back to the streets of Christchurch to be enjoyed by the residents and visitors. Since the earthquake the tram can no longer go fully around the city, it could take different routes every day depending where ...

Another little tour round today. It's a beautiful clear sunny day. We went to see where Neil works today at South Pacific motorcycle tours there slogan is RIDE NEW ZEALAND LIVE THE DREAM. Mike and Carol own the company, very friendly people and they have some loverly dogs, we stay chatting for a while then we went on to a sml suburb called redwood in the middle of the eastate is a small bubbling Spring, pure clear water, we sat for a while so peaceful and quite ...

Bad weather day today, didn't stop play. Went and explored Christchurch by foot today, yes a lot of fallen buildings and signs still from the earth quake but you can see they are slowly getting there we loved the re start mall which is them shipping containers made into great shops, oh yes some great shops we did a bit of retail shopping, just to help the retailers ( if you can beleave me...) that is my reason for shopping. We also went to a small exhibit calle...

We took a two hr drive to Akaroa a bit of a long drive but the views once again were stunning up and over the hills winding little roads, nothing to stop you driving right over the edge, but to see the Eagles up in the cliffs and the birds of pray that swoop around hunting for food. Coming over the hills to look down on Akaroa from way up was just like looking at a large postcard the blue waters and the hills surrounding just don't look real but they sure are. ...

Sunday... later start today had a great cooked breakfast before setting out to Riccarton market kind of boot fare/ market had a nice walk round got a couple of tshirts just some little bits sunshine all day. We then went to the train park a loverly play ground for kids but with a great miniature railway with many miniature steam engines which pull sit on trucks behind for anyone to ride for just $2 just £1 adult and children alike, these steam trains where big...