DAY 22 CHRISTCHURCH

The high tech wake up system was a huge dissapointment. Mavis's system on the boat the other day was far more effective and entertaining.

Checked out and then did he historic tram tour, which would have been much more fun with a bit of speed on.

Also called into the dry docks to check out Dan & Rosies new boat. ;-)

Karen then took us on a very scenic drive out to the Banks penisular and the pretty seaside town of Akaroa. Discovered that Nana's car actually goes pretty well on the narrow winding mountain roads if you push it a bit. The VVT thingy actually works.

Sam has this amazing ability to suss out chocolate shops.

Not the same as the bike which would have been awesome,but good fun all the same.

Obviously been a postie bike through here doing burnouts.

Had some very nice fish& chips, then back into town, to check out the Antartic centre, which we had been told was a must see, but was actually a huge waste of time and money.

Kelly Tarltins had a much better penguin display and while the simulated antartic storm and Hagguland ride was slightly amusing, on the whole, very dissapointing.

A quiet dinner then an early night as we fly out at 6.15 am tomorrow.

And sadly so ends our tour of New Zealand. We have both had a fantastic time, met some brilliant people that we hope we will stay in touch with and seen some unbelievable sights.
Huge thanks again to Buzz & Sue for letting us use their bike. We did over 6000klms on some of the best riding roads in the world, took over 4000 pictures (who wants to come to a slide night at our place) and the website has had over 3000 views in the past 3 weeks, which just spins me out.

We are already planning a big one for next year, but won't say much, just yet, but if you know what the letters IOM TT mean, you might have an idea what we would like to do. But in the mean time, I have a couple of other smaller rides coming up including the Postie Bike Outback Pub Crawl in May and Krombit tops on the 640 at Easter. Also trying to organise a trans continental to Perth for the Oz Safari, bit its not 100% yet.

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Sam & I both hope you have enjoyed following our travels. We certainly enjoy bringing it to you.

KIA ORA

Guy & Sam x