New Zealand in review - Day 3 - Christchurch to Franz Josef

The day started so simply with a lovely drive across the Canterbury Plains. Beautiful green fields, snow capped mountains - just lovely. And then we hit the winding road into Arthur's Pass. Still gorgeously scenic.

Had lunch at the Wobbly Kea (amazing cheese/garlic bread!)
at Arthur's Pass and we were not two minutes down the road when Ethan got car sick. And that turned out to be car sick episode 1 and episodes 2, 3 and 4 were to follow.

Winding mountain roads don't often present easy places to stop to try and clean up and change a very unhappy little guy. It wasn't fun.

By the time we got to Hokitika, our thoughts of a nice wander around the greenstone/jade, glass, jewellery shops were replaced with a trip to the local supermarket to buy towels!


By the time we arrived in the lovely little township of Franz Josef, I was totally over car travel - as I think all five in the car were - and very glad of the promise of a rest day to follow. Little did I know.