Day 14: Off The Rails

So after a late arrival back into Christchurch last night, perhaps against better judgement, we decided to hop on another form of rail transport. The vintage tramway runs an extensive 2.5km loop throughout the city, it's very easy to be fooled into believing there are multiple art galleries, parks, bars, shops etc that are identical in this city, well for me at least.

We were slightly wary of boarding as the trams had yet again made front page news in the papers this morning 'Woman Drives Car Into Tram Shock Horror', it's local news at it's finest. Still a few hop-on-hop-offs and we stop for lunch at a lovely little bistro on New Regent Street, shortly before the tram ploughs it's way through the shopping centre (where two days previous it had met it's fate with a sliding door).

A brief scout around the city in the afternoon and I'm thrilled at the sight of The Treehouse, Christchurch's karaoke bar - that's the evening sorted, much to Matt's horror. Following a late dinner I'm very insistent we get there in good time - we arrive outside, we can hear the music thumping, lights flashing away we get upstairs only to find we have the run of the bar, and the staff are very surprised to see punters. Still a good night was had and I got to sing away to my heart's content until about 1am - Matt's thrilled. Goodnight.

Join us tomorrow for our well-rested journey to Sydney.