NZ: Going home

Sunday 22.4: It was pretty cold in the room when we woke up. We hung around for a while before driving to Christchurch, that completed our loop around the South Island. In Christchurch we found a nice hostel: Frauenreiseheim (or something like that, anyways it was a hostel meant only for women). The main building was an old style house and the rooms looked stylish, as well. They had the largest movie collection ever! Carla and Denise started to watch Bridget Jones, and I decided to walk to town centre. To be honest, Christchurch was nothing special. First I checked out the cathedral, which was beautiful but not as impressive as for example St.Marys Cathedral. Then I crossed a river and got to this market place. They were having Sunday markets outside and I walked around. There were many little kiosks selling cheap food from different countries, all kind of New Zealand made stuff and arts. I found this little fudge store that had free samples; Ended up spending quite a while there sampling the fudge ;) On my way back I stopped at some clothes stores but couldn´t buy anything because of having no money left. When I got back to our hostel we decided to leave for dinner to celebrate our last night in New Zealand. We had picked a restaurant serving various kinds of deserts from Lonely Planet, but when we got there we decided we wanted to have some real food instead. So we ended up eating at this Japanese restaurant, which was a good choice. My salmon was so delicious! We were so stuffed after dinner, and just walked back to the hostel and watched Bridget Jones 2. We were also doing laundry (it was free, unlike in Geegal) and had some problems with the dryer.


The cathedral and some monument


Monday 23.4: Carla had a different flight back home, and Denise took her to the airport at around 5am. I stayed in the hostel sleeping. Later in the morning Denise and I watched a movie, whose name I forgot, but it was a good one. We also drank several cups of free hot chocolate :) We were supposed to leave for the airport, but we hadn´t finished the movie yet so we kept giving ourselves "a few more minutes" until we really had to go. We got gas on our way there and returned the car some 15min late, which they didn´t care. We were given a ride to the airport, where we spent some time looking at stuff at stores and eating our dinner leftovers. We were also planning on spending our last $NZ12 on ice cream or something good, but we had to pay a $25-fee to get out of the country, so we were left with $2 with which we purchased a chocolate bar. We flew via Brisbane, where I finally had french fries! I had been telling Denise and Carla I´d eat french fries during our trip (I hadn´t had them for over half a year) so I had to do it before we returned home. We arrived in Sydney at around 10pm and had to wait pretty long for our luggage. It rained so much, and I actually got to use my new raincoat walking home from Redfern, that I hadn´t once needed in New Zealand :)