Friday 27th Feb: Today began drizzly and never really improved. We left Hanmer Springs and drove east and south to Christchurch. For the first time in exactly one year we were back into the world of traffic lights, roundabouts and queues. We certainly don’t miss them. We headed round to the south-west of the city to Wigram Airfield where the National Aviation Museum is. We visited this last year and really enjoyed it. When we arrived we found that as of last weekend they had introduced free admission, which was even better. Steve and Peter went on an hour-long tour of renovation projects while Edward and Jonathan and I looked at the finished ones. Being beside an active landing strip there were light aircraft and helicopters taking off and landing all the time we were there.
We drove to the north of the city to a campsite we stayed in last year that has lots of extras compared to the others we have stayed on so far. As a result it gets completely full and the slots are close to each other, but the discipline is so good that even here everyone is very considerate. Many people have just arrived in NZ or are right at the end and going back to the airport which is only 10 minutes away.
The boys played on all the playgrounds while Steve walked up the road to get some take-away food for tea. We ate quickly and then went to the camp movie room to watch the kids movie Speed Racer. If you have young sons this is such fun to watch (other than one scary bit with some piranhas). I put the boys to bed while Steve returned for the grown-ups’ film, Ghost Rider.
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