Christchurch - the Garden City Like Goldilocks, we are never happy, or just right. The weather in Melbourne and Port Douglas was too hot, and in Tasmania too cold. In Brisbane, the one night we were there, it was just right. Warm, with a cool breeze. Not too hot, not too cold, but just right. When we landed at the Christchurch airport we thought, oh Lordy this is cold. We had five nights in Christchurch. We were hoping to pick up our campervan a couple days early, but if not, this would be our first locale where we ran out of “stuff” to do and really spent some time vegging out. And, it was cold and overcast. On our first full day, we took the Christchurch Gondola up to a hilltop with views of Lyttleton
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