It is still raining in
Christchurch.
It rained most of the night – we could hear it on the roof and the windows of our room.
But, we still woke up early and went for an early morning run to
Christchurch city center and then back.
Even at 7:00 am, there are few people out moving around and the cafes-coffee shops are not even open.
We modified our plans to explore the city center more, because of the rain, & decided to go to the Canterbury Museum by Hagley park. Since the museum wasn’t open until 9, we had a very good breakfast Le Café, across from the Canterbury Museum and the Christchurch Art Gallery. It was excellent, and probably the best java I’ve had here.
The museum is a pretty decent museum, with several exhibits on the ancient Maori tribes that inhabited the island and the how the settlers came to the island. It was a good way to spend a rainy morning in Christchurch, given that we only had a few hours to spend before leaving for the airport. And, then we walked back out into the rain, walked to a shop before decided we’d had enough of the rain. We then headed disappointingly left for the airport.
I cannot believe our holiday is over. Greg still is trying to convince me to eat a meat pie at the Auckland airport (when we get there)… but interestingly, he doesn’t seem to offer that he’ll have a meat pie. He just wants me to eat a meat pie.
Extra note – do you know it cost $25.00 NZ to leave the country? You would think they would want us to leave without paying some tax/duty to leave. They complain about immigration and welcome tourists… but will charge you $25 NZ pp to leave the place.
1 comment:
I think we stopped at Le Cafe as well. (I think Sudha got coffee there). I know we ate at the pizza/pasta/beer garden place across the street (on the same "block" as Canterbury Museum/University). It had a cool college vibe.
We also went Modern Art Museum (several times, in fact, although after the 1st it was to use their bathrooms).
Daryl
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