Dunedin: Today was our 1st time to touch New Zealand soil, as
yesterday we just got to look at the pretty Sounds. So now we’ve experienced:
• Scotland
look-alike scenery, since this city was settled by Scottish Presbyterians who wanted it to look just like
Edinburough.
• The
most photographed building in NZealand – the train station
• World’s
steepest road: Baldwin Street – feels just like San Francisco with lots of steep roads
• A
pretty 100-yr-old church… lovely, with an old cemetery behind it with unique-looking above ground crypts
• Agapanthus
flowers bigger than our heads. Unreal
• “Give
Way” signs instead of “Yield”. Cute
Day 9 ~
The 2 highlights of the day in Akaroa, New Zealand ~
• Watching
sheep dogs round up the sheep, then sheep-shearing. This man has been doing this for 38 years, & he’s fit as a fiddle, approaching 60. So different from
anything we know!
• Out of
this world crazy beautiful botanical gardens.
This pic of me in the hydrangeas that tower over my head doesn’t even
show a fraction of what was there – I had tears in my eyes as I walked around
this place. Probably a bit like what the
Garden of Eden would’ve looked like. Akaroa was settled by French, so it was fun to be bussed
through La Rue Russard, etc. The
countryside was breathtaking. Tonight we have a comedian juggler. Last night we heard a solo concert from
Australia’s Vocalist of the year – she performed at the Sydney Olympics –
unbelievable belting.
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