Day 8 - 4th Aug 2007

The morning was spent having a very good breakfast in a Napier cafe (New Zealand cafes are a real highlight of the trip - everywhere we've been there have been a number of individual cafes all serving great tea & coffee with excellent home made cakes, scones, muffins etc. We're definitely going to miss them!) and then wandering around the town looking at the art deco architecture. Of course this was a bit high-brow for Helen & Andrew so they went and played mini-golf.

We then headed to the very small airport for the short flight down to Christchurch in an equally small plane.

Arrival at Christchurch was disappointing as the weather was definitely depressing - wet, windy and cold. So far we've been very lucky with mostly light-clouds, mild temperatures and only a few light showers. Now we've come further south it feels like we've got a lot closer to Antartica (and Christchurch calls itself "Gateway to Antartica").

A quick walk into the city centre in the rain and dinner at Sticky Fingers and no one very keen to do much exploring.

New Zealand 2007 pt 4