The day was great. We woke up at 7 o’clock, freezing in our tent. It was really cold last night. We quickly packed our stuff and went further on to Arthurs. Luckily our car has a quite good heating and I quickly forget the freezing night. We was an amazing morning and we took some great photos of the sun rising.

After a breakfast, defending our food from these annoying KEA birds, we went to hiking on the Bearly Spur Hut for about 4 hours. I was a warm day and I felt quite comfortable because of the right clothes and my new black and very warm gloves.

We – Jeff, Robert and I - left Wanganui on Friday and went directly to Wellington. We stayed overnight in the second biggest city of the North Island and went to several bars.

After only 4 hours of sleep we got up at half past 6 to reach the ferry which brought us directly to Picton, a city at the north part of the South Island.
 

Wasting no time we went directly another 400 km southeast to Christchurch, just stopping for a small lunch in Kaikoura.
 

Over the last weekend I took a plane for travelling to Christchurch to visit Veronika who is working at the HIT-Lab/University of Cunterburry for 2 month. First I have to say that Christchurch is on the southern island where nature is more untouched than on the northern one.
It’s winter sale so I must check some new clothes for me ;-) and it’s amazing cheap here compared to Austrian standards… approximately half the prize!