New Zealand

I know I know, I haven’t posted for ages – I have been internet challenged. They have a strange system of allocating only so many GB of capacity per month and we arrived in NZ just as they had run out for the month. We are now free to surf and upload to our hearts content – well for another 5 GB anyway so you will get all my last two weeks worth in one lot.

Flying in to Christchurch from Melbourne we crossed over the West Coast and the Southern Alps on a brilliantly sunny day. Its wonderful watching the mountain change to rolling hills and on to the tidy patchwork of the Canterbury plains.

Its spring time in Christchurch and the weather is typical spring weather, cool, cloudy, suddenly hot and then wet and cold. The blossom is out and the azalea’s and rhododendrons have put on a lovely display. We wandered the gardens at Ilam ( my old university) and although it was overcast and cool the colors were spectacular.