Showing posts with label christchurch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christchurch. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 March 2013
So close...
I am in the airport, I depart on my 32 hour flight in 40 minutes, I can't wait. I can't even begin to describe how much I have missed home. I don't particularly want to spend all that time on planes and in airports, but it is worth is a hundred times over if it means I am back with the people I love! Dear Britain, I am almost home.
Monday, 18 March 2013
And breath...
So I am in Wellington again! Considering I spent a large section of my time in Wellington fretting, you might wonder how I feel being here for the second time in as many weeks... SO RELIEVED!
I am very happy with where I am staying! It is in a nice location and there are buses here throughout the day, I am only a few minutes walk from the sea. Coincidentally if I walked up the road I am on, and kept following it, I could walk both to the zoo, and to the last place I stayed in Wellington! It is raining and I am exhausted to bits, but if that's all I have to complain about then I am lucky indeed! I have booked a flight back to Christchurch from here, as that is where I will be flying home from, and it was cheaper to fly than take the coach/ferry AGAIN! I am in bed with a hot water bottle, I had Dinosaur pasta for tea, I have my own bathroom again. What's not to smile about. If only my favourite people were here to enjoy it with me, but I am happy to post something with less than my usual amount of moaning!
I hope you are all snug in your beds! Don't get up today, have a lie in... ALL DAY! Make sure to watch Lord of the rings and eat Pumpkin soup. You can eat a whole cake for dinner, don't feel guilty, blame me. Have lovely days the lot of you!
Tomorrow I may do no more than wash my hair, but I may do much more! I have no idea, it mostly depends on the weather. I with you all lots of love, xx
I am very happy with where I am staying! It is in a nice location and there are buses here throughout the day, I am only a few minutes walk from the sea. Coincidentally if I walked up the road I am on, and kept following it, I could walk both to the zoo, and to the last place I stayed in Wellington! It is raining and I am exhausted to bits, but if that's all I have to complain about then I am lucky indeed! I have booked a flight back to Christchurch from here, as that is where I will be flying home from, and it was cheaper to fly than take the coach/ferry AGAIN! I am in bed with a hot water bottle, I had Dinosaur pasta for tea, I have my own bathroom again. What's not to smile about. If only my favourite people were here to enjoy it with me, but I am happy to post something with less than my usual amount of moaning!
I hope you are all snug in your beds! Don't get up today, have a lie in... ALL DAY! Make sure to watch Lord of the rings and eat Pumpkin soup. You can eat a whole cake for dinner, don't feel guilty, blame me. Have lovely days the lot of you!
Tomorrow I may do no more than wash my hair, but I may do much more! I have no idea, it mostly depends on the weather. I with you all lots of love, xx
Friday, 15 March 2013
Well, well, well-ington.
Okay, change of plan.
Coming to Christchurch scared me so much that I wanted to leave before I'd even arrived. However I am only leaving a day early, though it should also be noted I am leaving for Wellington, not Queenstown as planned. After the shock of Christchurch (which had nothing to do with the spider in my bed by the way) I felt I couldn't risk going to Queenstown in case it was the same. I have since heard that it is lovely, but I don't really want to spend 3 days alone there as I think I would feel lonely. SO, I am going back to Wellington. There were lots of things there I didn't get a chance to do, so this isn't entirely a bad thing. I am less likely to feel lonely and homesick in a place with so much to do, that I already know my way around to some degree. Although I feel I have done enough traveling for this month, and would very gladly skip home on the plane tomorrow, I will have to keep going for a while longer it seems. I can't get a refund on my home stay in Queenstown because they were greedy money grabbers, but I am trying to put that behind me and chalk it up to bad luck. I have booked to stay in a little beach cottage in Lyall Bay, Wellington and will try to visit the museum, the botanic gardens and the cinema while I'm there, but who knows! I will then have to travel back here to fly. So soon I will be setting off on a real, unplanned adventure, I feel sad but I have to keep positive!
Coming to Christchurch scared me so much that I wanted to leave before I'd even arrived. However I am only leaving a day early, though it should also be noted I am leaving for Wellington, not Queenstown as planned. After the shock of Christchurch (which had nothing to do with the spider in my bed by the way) I felt I couldn't risk going to Queenstown in case it was the same. I have since heard that it is lovely, but I don't really want to spend 3 days alone there as I think I would feel lonely. SO, I am going back to Wellington. There were lots of things there I didn't get a chance to do, so this isn't entirely a bad thing. I am less likely to feel lonely and homesick in a place with so much to do, that I already know my way around to some degree. Although I feel I have done enough traveling for this month, and would very gladly skip home on the plane tomorrow, I will have to keep going for a while longer it seems. I can't get a refund on my home stay in Queenstown because they were greedy money grabbers, but I am trying to put that behind me and chalk it up to bad luck. I have booked to stay in a little beach cottage in Lyall Bay, Wellington and will try to visit the museum, the botanic gardens and the cinema while I'm there, but who knows! I will then have to travel back here to fly. So soon I will be setting off on a real, unplanned adventure, I feel sad but I have to keep positive!
Well I'm not going to tell you about yesterday if that's what you're thinking.
No seriously, I'm saving that!
Today I took the ferry from Wellington to Picton and the coach from Picton to Christchurch. I felt dreadful leaving the home in Wellington, not Wellington itself, I hadn't got to know it yet, but the home, my hosts and Juno were reluctantly left behind. The ferry trip was heartbreakingly beautiful, taking me entirely by surprise as I had no preconceived idea of what it would be like. The coach trip too had some beautiful scenery, although I must admit I had a severe case of coach trip paranoia (a phenomena quite common for me) and was convinced not only that the other passengers hated me, but that everyone I love would be dead by the time I reached my destination! I bumped into Simon and our well meaning dutch girl (whose name I can't spell!) from my last home stay who were in Kaikoura where we stopped off for a 30 refreshment break, small world! (Or country.) I did need to take 2 more buses once I got to Christchurch, something I did with little problem but much worrying. Not I am here, my Host has assured my there's "not much to do in Christchurch." How... Refreshing! We shall see what tomorrow brings, I am tired and right now I would sooner be back in Wellington or even Auckland. Good night!
Today I took the ferry from Wellington to Picton and the coach from Picton to Christchurch. I felt dreadful leaving the home in Wellington, not Wellington itself, I hadn't got to know it yet, but the home, my hosts and Juno were reluctantly left behind. The ferry trip was heartbreakingly beautiful, taking me entirely by surprise as I had no preconceived idea of what it would be like. The coach trip too had some beautiful scenery, although I must admit I had a severe case of coach trip paranoia (a phenomena quite common for me) and was convinced not only that the other passengers hated me, but that everyone I love would be dead by the time I reached my destination! I bumped into Simon and our well meaning dutch girl (whose name I can't spell!) from my last home stay who were in Kaikoura where we stopped off for a 30 refreshment break, small world! (Or country.) I did need to take 2 more buses once I got to Christchurch, something I did with little problem but much worrying. Not I am here, my Host has assured my there's "not much to do in Christchurch." How... Refreshing! We shall see what tomorrow brings, I am tired and right now I would sooner be back in Wellington or even Auckland. Good night!
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