From Christchurch we hired a car for a few days and first port of call was Arthurs Pass, a beautiful town set in the mountains. The drive over was superb, the sun was shining and the scenery amazing. We had planned to do a walk that afternoon but Rohan was ill so we couldn't. The weather the next day was pretty poor so this ruled out the walk again. Although we didn't do that much here it was still worth the trip for the drive over alone.