School Holiday Diary: We Drove To Christchurch and Back

Up first, in the yurt. Plunger coffee and a shower – hardly slumming it with wifi and portable speakers, with books galore to take you away anyway, with a wooden floor instead of the dirt that would be heated by fire and vented through a flimsy roof duct. This one has power, has heaters, hot water bottles, electric blankets.

The family is sleeping, somet…