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On the morning of day 12, I discovered our holiday park had a trampoline.
This is the spa pool where we had a soak the night before. And these are some ducks. Good morning ducks.
We
Kaikoura’s a popular place for tourists and I asked one of the owners of the holiday park what there was to do here.
Lots of fantastic tours, I mean there’s beautiful walks. We’re very lucky, we’ve got the mountains right here as well of the coastline. Fairly spectacular coastline with the seal colonies dotted along as you’re coming into Kaikoura. Swimming with dolphins
Lee Boot
Alpine-Pacific Holiday Park
A whale watching tour is definitely on the list for next time.
This is the road to Christchurch.
On the way to Christchurch we saw a camp site called Paia Point. It looked like a really nice place to stay, apart from the unnecessary apostrophe. Another place on the list for next time.
Before we went into the city, we checked into the place we were staying that
Spencer Beach Holiday Park is a huge place next to the beach. We stayed on site number 28.
We had a quick look at Spencer Beach. It looked really nice, but it was too cold to go swimming.
Then we headed to the United Campervans Christchurch depot to swap
United’s Christchurch depot is near the Christchurch Airport, in a suburb called Burnside.
We filled the tank up at a service station near the depot.
And this is the United Campervans Christchurch depot. United also has a brand called Alpha. Those are the slightly older vehicles. The United
Our new
I talked to Aaron at the depot and I asked if he had any advice for people travelling around New Zealand by
Don’t plan too much ahead. People arrive here and they’ve got 7 or 10 days or something and they’ve got something they want to do every day. But you don’t know what
Aaron Johnson
United Campervans
We moved all our stuff to our new Sprinter, signed a few pieces of paper and then we drove into the middle of Christchurch to check out the city.
I lived in Christchurch when I was studying here in 1999. This is my old flat. This was my room.
I bought a postcard from a shop in Colombo Street and we had a coffee at the cafe opposite my old flat. We used to come here quite a bit for coffee. I remember my flatmates liked one particular staff member as much as the coffee.
We sent the postcard to the US and had dinner at the restaurant under my old flat.
Then we went for a bit of a drive around the city. It was quite hard to get around because a lot of the streets were closed after the earthquake on the 4th of September.
It was really depressing seeing all the damaged buildings and all the graffiti. I thought it looked kind of like a giant had come and shaken up a toy city and then scribbled all over it.
It wasn’t all sad though, we saw people out in the city who seemed to be having a good time, eating and drinking. Hello!
I worked in
I wanted to go and check out a new bar that I’d heard someone talking about on a radio show that I listen to so we went on a mission to find that.
On the way I saw a few dogs. And this awesome video store that I used to go to.
We found the bar we were looking for, Goodbye Blue Monday. It turned out to be a very cool place with tasty beer, comfy couches and a ping pong table.
I asked the bartender about the name.
It’s from a book by Kurt Vonnegut called Breakfast of Champions. And it’s the slogan of … it means all sorts of things in the book, basically we’re just obsessed with Kurt Vonnegut. But it’s the slogan of a company in the 1930s and 40s that makes automatic washing machines. And it’s … so they’re saying that traditionally women had to do the washing on Mondays, so Monday was the most horrible day of the week for them, cause they had to do it all by hand. And by bringing electronics and technology into it it was like, “Goodbye blue Monday” cause they had a whole … I don’t know, that’s got no relevance to the bar, but it’s just, yeah, Kurt Vonnegut is awesome.
Tim Moore
Goodbye Blue Monday.
Seeing the damage in Christchurch was so sad. And then of course, as you know, a month later on the 22nd of February it all got so much worse.
Goodbye Blue Monday has now closed. The building where we had coffee no longer exists. And from the pictures I saw of my old flat, I think that building’s probably been demolished as well.
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Christchurch photos
My old flat - 23 February 2011
photo: Geof Wilson
Cafe Metro building - April 2011
photo: G P Wilson
Old flat and Cafe Metro
Old flat
links
Motorhome we used from days 1 to 12.
Motorhome we used from days 12 to 31.
credits
thanks to:
United Campervans
Lee Boot
Alpine-Pacific Holiday Park
Kiwi Holiday Parks
Spencer Beach Holiday Park
Aaron Johnson
Tim Moore
Goodbye Blue Monday
music
starting track
track: boatsbutnottheocean (Swept Away)
track 3
This video is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence.
Credit to: studio tdes | www.thedailyenglishshow.com
Christchurch photos
My old flat - 23 February 2011
photo: Geof Wilson
Cafe Metro building - April 2011
photo: G P Wilson
Old flat and Cafe Metro
Old flat
links
Motorhome we used from days 1 to 12.
Motorhome we used from days 12 to 31.
credits
thanks to:
United Campervans
Lee Boot
Alpine-Pacific Holiday Park
Kiwi Holiday Parks
Spencer Beach Holiday Park
Aaron Johnson
Tim Moore
Goodbye Blue Monday
music
starting track
artist: Eric Elvendahl
track: sold break 8 bars
track 1
artist: Guillaume Robbe
track: cloudy
album: Piano solo
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
MySpace
artist: Guillaume Robbe
track: cloudy
album: Piano solo
from: Paris, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
MySpace
track 2
artist: I Am Not Lefthanded
album: Time To Leave (Instrumental)
from: London, United Kingdom
track 3
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Modern Jazz Samba
track 4
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Flutey Funk
track 5
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: No Good Layabout
track 6
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Gymnopedie No 1
track 7
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Funkorama
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