Christchurch and home

We're home.

Figured I should post what we've been doing since Queenstown, though, so here goes.

The bus trip to Christchurch was quite good, as we happened to have a lot of people on our bus that we'd travelled with earlier in the holiday. It was great to catch up with everyone and get all the stories of what they'd been up to since we'd last seen them.

The hostel we stayed in at Christchurch was pretty good, and fairly central. The only trouble was, we had six days there, and there was very little to do in Christchurch. Actually, that's probably not true, but there was very little that we wanted to do while we were there. Being the last few days of our holiday, we were very keen on the "relax and enjoy" aspect of being away from home! As such we spent most of the time sleeping (how I relax) and shopping (how Naomi relaxes), with the odd meal and cinema visit thrown in for good measure.

It did mean though, that by the end of our stay we were beginning to get a little bored and were in some ways quite happy to be heading home.

Our flights back to the UK were fine - we were very glad we chose to have a 12-hour stop-over in the airport terminal's hotel in Singapore to break the journey up, mind you. Saved us from massive jetlag when we got home!

Home is much the same as its always been - we've spent a few days going to bed early and waking up early as our bodies adjust to the new timezone. Got back on Monday night and were straight in at work on Tuesday morning, which has actually been good as its helped us adjust better to being back!

Overall, we've had a fantastic holiday. It was made all the better by all the people we met on our journeys, so we really should say a massive thank you to Noosha, Simon, Charlotte & Lucy, Magdalena, Barbara, Sabrina, Ellie & the Canadians, Dave, Anne & Patric, Sandra and everyone else that we got to know on our time away. Also a massive thank you to our Kiwi Experience drivers - Andy, LJ and Bods. These guys really do go out of their way to help you enjoy your travels with them, and that raised the holiday above the level it would have been if we had organised our travels ourselves.

We've had an amazing time, and I suspect we may go back to New Zealand at some point in the future, but for now its just good to be home.