As followers of this Blog will know, we have plans in place to visit South Island and spend some time in Christchurch; it's also where we are planning to catch the trans-alpine railway from, and where we're due to collect our camper van..... I'm sure that you'll also know that Christchurch has recently been at the centre of a significant earthquake (7.1) and subsequent after shocks (up to 5.4). Reports on the web via news sites and forums give a varied picture, and it is apparent that some areas are severely damaged, others are unscathed. Clearly for anybody losing their home, their possessions or the building that contained their business it was disasterous; it is incredibly fortunate that nobody got killed.
We have been in touch with the companies with whom we have contacts and ALL of them were back up and running within 24 hours and the hotel we're booked in to has not been touched at all. We have been assured that all should be fine, though clearly Christchurch is going to have a few sights that are a bit different than we were expecting!
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