We pick up the blogging on Sunday, following the rugby final the night before. Sunday was a fairly relaxed day in Christchurch, well except for me deciding to bike up Dyers Pass to the sign of the Kiwi. Costa had challenged me to beat his time, and I got nowhere near. I had to push the bike half the way. For those people from Lowestoft, Imagine Biking up the ravine, constantly! Hard work. However, I was glad to do it just to get the view from the top again (and two cookies and cream ice creams, what, it was hot work!). Monday morning was an early start. 6:30am, it was still dark, it was cold, and it was raining. Basically the worst possible start to the day! Had breakfast with Victoria, very sweet, before getting a
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