[Christchurch, New Zealand] We’re running out of things to report. I guess because we are nearly finished our travels (for now). We fly out to SA next Sunday and that will be the ‘official’ end of our ‘traveling’ and the start of the ‘sponging’ 🙂

New Zealand weather is odd. Yesterday was cold, today V was out washing the van in her Bikini. We gave the ole little Vanette a solid scrubbing inside and out mainly to save the ‘Cleaning Fee’ from Rental Car Village. We have £10 left in our adjusted trip budget (more on that as soon as we get to updating the sheets).

We returned our little house. Sad to see it go. The receptionist at RCV barely glanced at the car to check for missing items, damage, fuel level etc. I was hoping they would at least comment on how clean it was after all that work. There is so much trust and honesty here. It continues to amaze us. What’s really funny is that if you return the car after hours the car manual has instructions on how to get into their service yard and where to leave the keys!

The Eweg’s have very kindly loaned us a car to use for the week so we’ll be able to get out and about in Christchurch if we don’t get stuck on the net or in front of a TV. We have loads of photos and video to upload, blog things to sort out and an awful lot of Net and TV time to catch up on.

[Pictures: Farewell little Vanette]

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