Dear Mum
Well - I am now in New Zealand - we arrived very late Sunday evening and picked up our camper
van Monday morning and drove out of Christchurch. To start with the countryside seemed very
normal but as we drove it started to change around every corner! One minute there would be
rolling hills, the next minute big black peaks in the distance and then amazing beaches.
This coastline was black, presumably volcanic - black sand and black rocks. The weather also seemed to change by the minute too, and we drove through sunshine. showers and rainbows - the sky stretching up and away in every direction with the clouds also making another landscape above us! The camper van is great and we stop and make cups of tea etc and our lunch watching the sea break on the rocks, or out to a lake and peaks - beautiful!
The scenery is truly fantastic - and really does take your breath away. It is much greener than Australia and looks more 'British' but on a much grander scale - all the beauty of the Lake District but really amplified - with hardly any people and loads of sheep. The towns are very small and sort of old fashioned in a nice way! Sue and I get on well and have laughed a lot.
The weather has been pretty wild and tonight - Wednesday - it is blowing a storm - but we are nice and cosy with our knitting!
Lots and lots of love my lovely Mum Tricia xxxx
This coastline was black, presumably volcanic - black sand and black rocks. The weather also seemed to change by the minute too, and we drove through sunshine. showers and rainbows - the sky stretching up and away in every direction with the clouds also making another landscape above us! The camper van is great and we stop and make cups of tea etc and our lunch watching the sea break on the rocks, or out to a lake and peaks - beautiful!
The scenery is truly fantastic - and really does take your breath away. It is much greener than Australia and looks more 'British' but on a much grander scale - all the beauty of the Lake District but really amplified - with hardly any people and loads of sheep. The towns are very small and sort of old fashioned in a nice way! Sue and I get on well and have laughed a lot.
The weather has been pretty wild and tonight - Wednesday - it is blowing a storm - but we are nice and cosy with our knitting!
Lots and lots of love my lovely Mum Tricia xxxx
