After getting up at the un-godly hour of 5am, and having breakfast, Edmund kindly dropped us off at the Christchurch train station. We had managed to re-pack our belongings back into two cases and two rucksacks, after being able to spread out our stuff in the hire car boot. Needless to say, Linda ended up with a lot of our cast offs of food and toiletries which just wouldn’t fit.
We were a little worried that we would exceed the weight limits published in the leaflet, let alone the limit of “one small handbag”. We needn’t have worried, the train driver avoided a hernia loading our case, and our over packed rucksacks passed as a small handbag somehow!
The journey was fairly uneventful and unfortunately, due to the lousy weather (the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Innis), we were unable to see most of the surrounding scenic sights! The mist and rain obliterated our view.
However, we did meet a lovely friendly couple (Aussie and Kiwi), who were good company throughout the journey.
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