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!

My itinerary!

Okay, so this isn't a detailed itinerary, because I don't have everything planned, and I don't want to put a list of the things I'm doing, that might be a bit much! But here are the places I'm staying, along with the dates, and where they are on the map! Thank you all, here we go...

The preparation process

So what have I actually been dong in preparation for going away? Well there's lots of things I've been sorting out including finances, medication, transport etc, but to give the most accurate idea of how my time has been taken up I have created this simple graph, see Fig 1. Below.