Christchurch

We had a lovely night in Gladstone cottage. A cottage on someone's front yard in Twizel. It was a slower morning as we had no immediate plans. We departed after 9am into a foggy drive north.

By the time we reached Lake Tekapo, the skies had cleared, showing all the mountains we missed on our rainy journey down. So we stopped in to take some more photos now that we could see the mountains around the lake.

We continued our journey reaching Fairlie around 11:50am. The line for the bakery was out the door and down the street. It moved fast, though I was disappointed they did not have the fabulous chicken and mushroom pie. I tried the mac and cheese pie instead, whilst it was nice, it didn't hold a bar to the chicken mushroom pie. Hubby stuck with the pork belly and apple pie.

Now that we were full, we continued on. Our next stop was at Rakaia Gorge. This time, we could see the mountains, so we went exploring a little, walked across the bridge, up higher across the road, and down to the shore.

Our next stop was Darfield as the kids saw a playground. So some play was had, then we headed for our final stop, Christchurch. Arriving around 4pm, we checked in and walked into the city centre. Here we found the marketplace food hall and each got something for dinner. A walk back to our motel had us there and settled in at 6:30pm.Read more