I have spend my first day in Christchurch.
The city had been struck by a severe earthquake in February 2011 where 185 peoples died and 10000 houses had been destroyed. 100000 houses needed repairs. The damage can still be seen at many places, most visible at the Christchurch Cathedral.
It's a strange situation as even 5 years later there are construction sites all over the city, repairing or rebuilding the damaged houses.
But Kiwis don't give up so easily, so they build the Re:start shopping Mall by using only shipping containers. Safe, cheap and stylish...
Next I hopped on onto the Christchurch Tram, a tram round trip with very lovely heritage tram cars.
As I write this, Frank has just landed in Bangkok, and will continue in 8 hours towards New Zealand where I will pick him up tomorrow .
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