Christchurch, baby!

So I was right - the complete stranger we met via the Couch Surfing website (Marcus) is much more hospitable to us than Amanda's friend in Brisbane. Marcus is great. He met us at the airport without even telling us he was doing so and took us straight away to lunch in Christchurch...


Amanda and I walked around and soon found the lovely Avon river...

which hosts ducks, fish, and even eels...

We saw a film in the arts district too...

and we saw some stuff at the (free!) museum, like this gold plated motorbike...


and a little older is this penny farthing...


For dinner, Amanda would make dinner for us and our host Marcus (that's him in the front) and his roommates Christoff and Phil (at the back)...

And now our time in Christchurch is almost over. We get on a train at 7:00 am tomorrow bound for Wellington. And again, our uber-host Marcus will heroically get up at 6:00 and drive us to the train station. What a guy!