We jetted off from Auckland to Christchurch on Saturday 17th March (after Joe fully satisfied his craving for MacDonalds chicken nuggets). Picked up our rental car and then went to explore Christchurch. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting the earthquake damage in Christchurch to be like, I certainly had no idea of the scale of the destruction - the whole city center is blocked off. We went to see the beautiful cathedral which is, tragically, being pulled down in a couple of weeks. However, despite the damage, we loved Christchurch. The current city center is made up of shops that have been put into brightly coloured shipping containers and the whole place had a real festival feeling about it. We camped the whole time we were travelling around the South Island (albeit we were
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