Day 13 - Christchurch. full circle in 8 days, and now its time to go home..... :(

Sadly this is where my trip came to an end.  I had to say goodbye to the enchanting south Island and get ready to embark upon yet another mammoth journey back to London.  This would begin with a domestic flight to Auckland, ajoined with a transit of a whooping 12 hours.  Followed by a 12 hour flight to Hong Kong, plus transit, then my final flight back into European airspace....a mere 15 hours...AARRRGGGGHHHH.  A total of nearly 50 hours without changing my clothes or having the prilivage of sleeping in a horizontal position. 

On the up side up, this torture only seemed to spur me on, and after failing to forget my time in NZ several months on- back in the UK, I decided it was time for action.  So.....in septemeber 2008 I will be leaving once again for NZ, but not for a whirlwind 9 days this time, oh no.  This time im leaving with my life in a backpack, a working visa in my back-burner and all the New Zealand Dollars I can get my hands on!!

Time for the real adventures to begin......   ;)