Our time on New Zealand's South Island has been mainly spent on buses. We really didn't plan this leg of the trip particularly well. Two weeks is not long enough to try and do an entire country. We have visited Christchurch (1 night), Queenstown (3 nights), Franz Josef Glacier (2 nights), and Nelson (1 night), in that time we have had 3 days which haven't involved bus journeys, and 4 days which were spent almost entirely on buses (two 8 hour trips, one 10 hours, one 6 hours, and then a 3 hour boat to the north island). New Zealand is having it's worst weather for 60 years! It's snowing where it's never snowed before, roads everywhere are closed, there's a few cities without power, and it's just generally been cold and wet. And, if that's
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