Christchurch is famous for its artists. Lots of these artists sell cookies, while being dressed in clothes the wizard would like.

Christchurch must be the strangest city in New Zealand:

• The statue in the city square resembles not fern leaves, like in Wellington, but marihuana leaves.

• The wizard who blatters a lot of nonsense about women rights is on the payroll of the council.

• The restored tramways covers a track of 2,5 kilometres, so no-one in a right mind would pay 12 kiwi-dollars. Fortunately for the tramway operators, not everybody is that sensible.

Christchurch has a botanical garden, and we visited it. Actually, the garden proofs again Christchurch is a bit strange: only 13 years after the first settlers arrived, the garden was started. This results in big trees.

The next day we did a trip around the beaches and bays of the Banks Peninsula. Thanks to our 4WD we could reach all those small places and cosy beaches, as almost none of the roads are sealed. 

We are now almost leaving New Zealand, so we have to make a picture of something that kept to amaze us: the toilet paper. It is very thin, so you need quite a bit to get something you can really use. But it sits on a big wooden holder on which it can hardly turn, so it takes an effort to get it of the role. Actually, this is not the worst holder of all: there is also a type that tries to snatch your fingers of when you take more than three papers.

Almost at the end of the holidays another self portrait, now much more tanned than 5 weeks ago. We were glad we had used the factor 20 sun cream, instead of lower factors. With the hole in the ozone layer above New Zealand, you really need it.