Day 1. Christchurch.
So, day one of our latest holiday. Technically as conference trip, but we'll be honest here. And we're already in Christchurch. Yesterday was our travelling day and it was too boring to warrant an actual blog entry. Our flight out wasn't until 2.20pm which was surprisingly civilised given the more common very early morning departures, and the airports were correspondingly quieter. There was a quick, uneventful flight to Melbourne, then about two and a half hours that felt a lot longer hanging around the airport before another flight to Christchurch. We arrived about 12.30 in the morning. Fortunately it's a small but well organised airport and we sailed through, collected our hire car (Subaru Outback) and drove through quiet, leafy suburbs to the Hotel Montreal. We were in our room by 1.30am. So today... we woke up at 9am which is 6.30 at home, so probably as good a transition as we could hope for. It turns out to be a pleasant and small hotel. Our room is large but sti...