Day 10 - Kaikoura to Timaru

The most important thing - I’m sure we can all agree - is that I have a new camera.

Having arrived in the dark it was somewhat of a surprise to draw the curtains and see the view from the apartment window. The apartment is so nice it’s booked for the return in a few days time.

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Onwards ever onwards to Invercargill. We clung on the East coast and through lots more roadworks fixing the roads post earthquake and past crashing waves we headed closer to Christchurch.

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As we travelled further south we passed more and more vineyards. It would have been rude not to stop at one and buy some wine. I’m drinking a glass as I type.

Another church fenced off and propped up.

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Into Christchurch and the earthquake / church theme continued. The cathedral is due to take ten years to rebuild.

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An hour in Christchurch was long enough and the back on the road. We passed the Book Warehouse. It may have been called something else. It was HUGE. It picked up a nice big pile of books for just ten US dollars.

The guy running it liked to chat a lot. He gave us a pretty incomprehensibly drawn map for a book fair somewhere close.

Something about sometimes firing a gun towards birds in the rafters, but missing.

He did give us free biscuits though.

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Checked into the hotel at Timaru by 8pm. Asleep by 10pm.