By 6.00pm the rain had stopped, and I went in search of some food. It was a rather grey and dank but only a 5-minute walk from the hotel across a park in front of the Transitional Cathedral (Photos to follow since today Saturday has been gloriously sunny) to Cathedral Square.
My taxi driver had said that the best place for 'street food' was the Riverside Market and, once I had made a couple of inquiries and found my way, this certainly proved to be the case. Three floors of all kinds of eateries including Argentinian Steak, Indian, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean and Mediterranean to mention but a few. The place was buzzing with people, mainly tourists from the USA, Australia, Japan and Korea.
All this to the beats of extremely ear popping music. 'Drum and bass' is nothing to the volume and beat of this 'surround sound', hence the quip "Where it's all happening man!
I eventually plumped for a Black Burger, the brand name of the stall and not the colour of the product! Placing the order proved interesting. The young guy taking the orders was 'horse' from shouting over the music and was also deaf!! Sign language proved effective, and I finished up with a thin Classic Wagyu Beef burger and a portion of fries. Wagyu beef is very expensive (Hence the thin burger), because of the time it takes to rear the beef to have its famous flavour and marbling throughout the meat. Traditionally Wagyu beef comes from Japan but given that it seemed to be available at other stalls in the market as well, this beef may have been reared in New Zealand.
Whatever the source the burger was delicious and after a stroll back to the hotel I fell into bed and slept for 12 hours.
I awoke to clear blue skies and glorious sunshine, and I have had a wonderful day in Christchurch riding the City Tram and visiting the Botanical Gardens, oh and I was introduced to 'Trim' milk so watch out for my next Blog!
This evening, I have met with my 34 other fellow companions on this Tour, and our Tour Director Melissa and our Driver Scott. The Tour begins in earnest at 8.30am tomorrow morning Sunday 17th March when we will be joining a two-hour Akaroa Nature Cruise to view the smallest and rarest of Dolphins, the Hector's Dolphins in their natural playground.
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