20 degrees, cloudy
Drop off day today, so we cleared the van down, gave away any food we had left, packed our suitcases and left our last campsite. We drove into Christchurch to drop our luggage off at our hotel and then headed out to the airport where the hire centre was. Breezed through the drop off quickly and caught a bus into town.
We have driven 3218 kms in the south island.
Back in town we wandered over to the beer and food festival in the park to have a look, as recommended by the tram driver yesterday, but they wanted $50 each just to get in. As we only wanted to spend an hour or so there we decided not to bother and went for lunch in town before going into the Quake Museum, devoted to the recent earthquakes. An interesting hour or so listening to people speak of their experiences and seeing photographs of the destruction and the work required to get the city back on it’s feet again. Quite horrific, for everyone in the city was affected in some way.
Back to the hotel to update blog and get an early night as our flight out tomorrow is 6.35 am so 3 am wake up call required (missed that one when checking our itinerary)!
We’ve had a wonderful time in New Zealand and shall be sad to leave and hope to come back one day.