9.10.09 Dinner and David and Janines!!

On Friday evening as a break from vegetables and pasta, and our own wonderful company we went for dinner with friends of friends; David and Janine (and Henry the dog). Living in a suburb of Christchurch and overlooking the sea it was great to explore more of Christchurch and meet such generous and welcoming people. We enjoyed fantastic food and great conversation and unexpectedly the comfort of their guest room!! So following a dinner invitation we had landed ourselves on them for the whole weekend. From theirs we walked around the coast and explored Sumner and Taylors mistake, some lovely beaches and headland looking out towards the snow capped mountains.

6.10.09 Christchurch

We stopped in Christchurch for a few days to check it out as a possible place to stay for a longer with jobs.

The Art Gallery had some interesting exhibitions on so in the evening we decided to go to a free talk / demonstration about sound art. I'm glad we didn't pay to listen to a helicopter landing for about 45mins - what a load of rubbish, cant believe we sat through it for that long... I'd like to say I felt bad about leaving halfway through but in the interest of health and safety and my ears it had to be done! We checked out the arts centre market in the oxford college style quadrangle and indulged in the fab food stalls and waited half an hour for some awesome souvlaki. We sat by the Avon and watched boats punting up and down - Christchurch is a lovely place but also a strange idealised state of English cities!