Christchurch looks a bit like an oldie woldie English provincial town (Winchester on a good day, perhaps more Norwich if you were being mean). We had a cool day strolling around admiring the place, drinking coffee (in my experience New Zealand is the best country in the world for coffee drinking but one of the worst for eating lamb, explain that, I can´t). In the evening we visited a pub local to our campsite, where we enjoyed some pints, watched some rugby (where all the adverts were for tractors, I love a good stereotype) and were frightened by a visiting Hen party. The next day we visited some more of Frenchie´s southern hemisphere dwelling buddies, who were happy to be surprised on a Sunday morning.
Pictures:
1. Christchurch tram.
2. Old woldie building.
3. Found a statue of Scott of the Antarctic, a real British hero who must have visited NZ.
4. Hat shopping, I wasn´t allowed to buy this one as it was a bit expensive, and I was already on my sixth hat of the holiday.
5. Ignore the dog on the skateboard in this picture, the real area of fascination for me was the girl with no shoes on. It´s weird but, all over NZ I kept seeing people without shoes, if it was hot I could almost understand, but it was bloody freezing.
6. Frenchie with Victoria, Little Jemima, Little Rupert and Charlie.
Christchurch est la ville la plus importante sur l´ile du sud, et ressemble un peu à une ville anglaise car elle contient quelques batiments typiques des villes roastbeef, du genre école de filles/école de garçons et tout le tralala (photo 2). C´est assez agréable surtout les jours de week-end, y´a un marché en plein air et des gens qui prennent des gouters avec café partout (hobbie de kiwis). J´en ai aussi profité pour faire une visite surprise à mes anciens amis et voisins anglais (de y´a 8 ans!) qui ont émigré là-bas pour avoir une vie plus saine (derniere photo, avec Victoria, Charlie et les deux petits, Jemima et Rupert dans leurs déguisements). On tenait aussi à souligner que les kiwis ont l´habitude - un tantinet bohémienne, voire plouc - de marcher pieds-nus partout, meme quand il fait un froid de canard. On n´a pas compris pourquoi (exemple de la 2eme fille en partant de la droite sur la photo 5).
