March 18 2016.......Christchurch NZ Better late than never, eh?
I am told by avid readers of our blog that I failed to finish the New Zealand Blog. Yikes, they are right of course and now I will try and make amends. Now where were we? Oh, yes, waiting at the station in Greymouth for the train bound for Christchurch; over the alps and on the other side of the island. There's not much to say about the trip over the mountain, except that it poured rain the entire way and we saw zippo, however there was a travelogue going and from the snippets we could actually hear above the noise of the train it sounded like the area and Arthurs Pass has an interesting history. Putting a road through here would be no mean feat, let alone a railway line. We cruised across the Canterbury Plains and into Christchurch where we grabbed a share-a-cab-min-bus the few short km's to our motel. The next day were had about six hours to fill-in before we were due at the airport so we went and jumped on a big red bus tour of the city. This was really interesting be...