Eventually here, after a few restful weeks in Perth it was back to lugging the backpacks everywhere.....BUGGER! The overnight flights were pretty tiring, we left Perth at midnight, arrived in Christchurch at 6 PM the next day, within a few days we'd bought ourselves a car and were off on our travels.........Well, that's how it should have been, as soon as we bought the car, it wouldn't start, we bought a battery after getting advice from a garage then broke down the next night when we turned the car lights on, cutting a long story short the alternator was shafted, a recon one cost us another $350! We kitted it out ourselves & Jo hand made the curtains (Jo's mum would be proud). Anyway, we headed off, the South island is absolutely beautiful, really rugged, our
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