Well, we're now back in Christchurch, our final destination in New Zealand before we fly out to Sydney. The last couple of weeks have been great, we've done a lot of K's and seen some amazing places. After we left the glaciers we headed on down the West coast untill we eventually got to 'Slope Point' the most Southerly point in New Zeland. It is situated in an area called the Catlins. Most of the roads aren't sealed and therefore you don't see many other people around. The beaches reminded us of Cornwall, beuatiful swathes of sand, rugged clifflines, but unlike cornwall, backed onto by native rainforest. It's a really pristine area, supported by the fact that we saw lot's of seals and sea lions basking on the beaches totally at peace. We carried on around the coast to Dunedin, a lot of Scottish settled here in the early days and so a lot fo the buildings reflect grand Victorian buildings you'd find back home. There is even a castle on the peninsular, apparantly the only one in NZ. The chap who built it was a politician and finnancier (sounds like a recipe for corruption !) and spent about $30 dollars in todays money. We actually thought it was a little small (the Wilson's obviously have expensive tastes !) but had the most amazing position, high on a hill overlooking the sea. Whilst in Dunedin we also went on a Speights Brewery tour. They are one of the oldest brewery's in NZ and still use a lot of the traditional methods employed at the turn of the centurary. In fact a lot of the machinery used, are the orginal's, imported from England about 100 years ago and still going strong !!!. The guide went through the whole process of how the beer is made and started to talk about the ingredients and of course the hops ! They source their hops from the very same town where Sam and I worked on the hop farm, so we could have infact help supply the brewery. We did tell the guide we'd sweated blood and tears for them, sadly he didn't seem that impressed ! Our last leg was then back up to Christchurch. We had allowed three weeks here as we had to sell the van. We didn't want to be in the position of a flight date looming over us and having to give the van away for a vastly reduced amount of money, so hoped the three weeks would be sufficient. So we spent two days cleaning her up, I touched up a few spots which needed attention, so that when we arrived at the back packers car market, she was gleaming !. There were a lot of other vans there and boored looking sellers sitting around, we thought we'd in for the long haul. I parked her up and within ten minutes an American chap approached me. I told him a little about the van and went for a test drive. By the time we returned the van to the lot, we'd shaken hands and Ted (the new owner of Kia Ora) had agreed the full asking price. She has been a great van for us, never missing a beat and allowed us to go to some amazing places that we'd never have been able to otherwise. All the other sellers were really pissed off, as some of them had been there for days and we litterally parked up and she was sold. Mind you, it was definately worth spending thoes few days cleaning her up, it was amazing how dirty some of the car's and van's were that were for sale !. Ted told us that all he was looking for was a Japaneeese van with no rust and he could see we'd looked after her and had an attachment to her. It now means that rather than hang around Christchurch for three weeks, we've managed to bring our flight to Sydeny forward to Tuesday. We're very excited to be going to Austrailia and it marks the start of another chapter in 'Wilson's World Tour' !