h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

- Last Tuesday (13th July)
We went to see Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal in Christchurch [Ian McKellen (Estragon), Roger Rees (Vladimir), Matthew Kelly (Pozzo) and Brendan O'Hea (Lucky)]. It keeps coming back to me.

- Sunday
A trip round the harbour at Lyttelton (Christchurch harbour). Very interesting.
Among other snippets, the cap'n informed us that the South Island's exports of coal leave here for Korea, China ... and that the volume isn't too great - about 10% of what leaves Australia's Newcastle. He also commented that the figures matched sports. Due to populations, Oz has far more participants but they, too, are of a lesser quality... well, he would say that, eh?

After that trip, on by bus to Governor's Bay and 'She Chocolat' for lunch. My, that was good. Pud was a choc case containing a big date stuffed with choc and something else not yet identified (must go back). Ooh!
I determined to buy some of their dark, bitter choc until I saw the price - about four times what I pay in the supermarket for a very presentable substitute.

- Today
To one of Ms Stress's Probus friends for a presentation - this woman was on a sales trip around NZ, for a cruise on the River Murray (Oz). Very good she was, too. The 5 day cruise looks very attractive (I couldn't face a conventional cruise - get too bored too quickly). So now I'll have to find a high-flyer job to pay for it.

Something learned... I knew the Murray was Oz's major one but what I didn't know was that it's ranked 17th longest in the world.