There's nothing there.

So, I have been living with earthquakes for almost a week now, it is not fun in the slightest.  Of course the Kiwis have been living with this for months, but as a newbie I have already fallen out with them.  Broken sleep, massive damage, weird heartracing. bursts of fear.  Well it is a very difficult thing to describe to someone who has not experienced it, but think of bad turbulence, that will lead to stuff coming down and the earth opening up.


Well other than the standard earth fuck on a daily basis, things have begun to return to the norm as best as is possible here at my cousins.  I mean the streets are still fucked and so are many houses and buildings, oh and many buildings are about ready to come down in the central city of Christchurch, which the military now has control of.  But you know other than that and the lack of power, water and sewerage across the city things are getting back to normal.  Anyway I have hung out with the family some and gone for a few drives. 

We visited a place called Hamner which was some hot springs, the place has been somewhat comercialised, but even so it was nice and relaxing and we had free passes, so that was good, plus it was a good way to get a hot shower.  Also we went to a little sea-side village called Akkara yesterday, it was a nice view and I will get my photos up at some point.  There was not much there, but nice none the less.

However something that I have definitely noticed is that there is nothing in New Zealand.  When you discount the earthquakes you notice that there are very few people here and they do a very bad job of filling the country.  Between each major town or city you are liable only to come across a few houses in the middle of no-where or a one horse town.  They say that they like it that way, but it's geartily inefficient. Yes the scenery is beautiful and I am glad such places of natural beauty still exist, but it's a damn pain to get from A to B. Maybe that's why so many of them are mad bikers, I am yet to experience this, but I am led to believe it is on the agenda for the week.  This pain maybe made worse by travelling around in a car that has comically been dubbed the siesta, since it usually sends all but the driver to sleep on almost any journey, especially something over 15 minutes.

Well that's my report for now.  I'll try get some pictures up soon.  Both regarding this post and the one prior to this.