Robin’s Birthday Surprise
For months our shared iPhone calendars have carried the event titled ‘Robin’s Birthday Surprise’ from May 20-25, and until a few weeks ago it had remained a total mystery to me. It was the Qantas app that shed a little more light on the plan when it revealed a red-eye flight to Christchurch on Wednesday May 20. Not that I was prying … I was innocently looking for the dates of another planned trip later in the year, when the app spilled the beans. That is, however, all I know. My family, when hearing the destination have helpfully provided me with a list of all the extreme sports that are possible when in Christchurch: bungee jumping, white water rafting, land-sailing, quad bike safaris, rock climbing, caving, helicopter flights, jet boats, sea kayaking … you get the picture. My response was, that if Stephen Walls was organising the trip I felt confident it was more likely to involve a train than any of the above. If you would like to find out wh...