Sorry for such a delay in doing this !!
So Tuesday 13th Feb we took the bus to the very pretty village of Sumner - an half hour trip or so outside Christchurch. The beach was quite busy with holiday makers and it is the 'surfers' place to go around this area. At night time went to Sticky Fingers 'cos it was so great the first time - was great this time too ! We also caught up with some of the more 'local' pubs to discover that Christchurch with a population of approx 367,000 has all of the same problems that most big towns/cities have. They have just legalised prostitution but still have a street problem - they have a big problem with drink/driving (levels allowed vary depending on your age!) etc but of course most of this is not visible to the tourist.
On Wednesday the weather was truely great - we decided to get a take away salad (yummy !) and have ourselves a picnic in Victoria Gardens. So having passed the teddy bears house where there is a statement from the teddy bears that 'only happy Teddy Bears live here' we progressed to the Park. We sat watching the various people getting punted up and down the river. We wandered to where they had a sundial in the park made of flowers. And then because we knew the cruise ships had visited earlier in the day we went back to the central Square to look at some of the displays for the Festical for Flowers which was on all of this week in Christchurch. I splashed out on a pair of 'Topless Sandals' in the craft market - they have no straps and attach to your feet by being sticky. I will let you know later in the trip how successful they were.
So now it was time to depart and head to Queenstown.
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