Tour Managers Tales

Hello everyone, I am pleased to report that we have now arrived in the port of Picton on South Island, awaiting the ferry to Wellington. The journey today started in the wee small hours 4am ... at Mount Cook we eventually travelled around the City of Christchurch at around 09.00, have now read the news that there was another big aftershock of  4.4 at 09.44 ... We stopped for lunch at Kaikoura for a while, it was nice to get out and have a walk around, the weather has improved as well with the heat index up into the mid twenties. So all is well for now, and hopefully remains that way, my clients are now starting to come to the terms with most of the sentences beginning with " what if"  ..... catch you all later ..

Hi everyone, I am sure by now you are aware of the devastating earthquake that centred on  the city of Christchurch. Having just been there 5 days ago it is shocking to see the pictures and news reports of what was a beautiful city now in ruins .... I was to be back there this evening (Wednesday) but of course that is not going to happen, we are staying in Mount Cook, and leave here at 04.00am to make our way to Picton and then the ferry crossing to Wellington, we are expecting the journey to take approx 12 hours. It has also been a very worrying time for my driver, as his family and home are all in the Christchurch area, I am pleased to say that they are all okay, what made it worse was that we had no telephone connections the systems were just overwhelmed for the first few hours. I am sure you will agree that our thoughts and prayers should be with the families that have lost or are still waiting to hear from their loved ones. I am sure that the City and the People of Christchurch wi

Hello followers, firstly, Happy Valentines Day, hope that you are all well .... it is now time to fly .. heading to New Zealand today, NZ1 to Auckland via Los Angeles, then on to Christchurch arrive there on 16th, and shall be 13 hours ahead of the UK, the weather is looking good out there, mostly in the 70's .... nice. Speak to you in a couple of days.