After leaving Christchurch, the most English of New Zealand's cities, with it's parks, gardens, Gothic buildings and lazy River Avon, the next stop is Dunedin, the most Scottish of New Zealand cities. Dunedin, rich with fine architecture and world-famous wildlife reserves is surrounded by hills that form the crater of a volcano which we cannot see due to the low clouds. The weather is still "yucky". More rain and high winds plus is has gotten much colder. But we are not deterred as we head for the town square which is really not a square at all, but and octagonal. Dunedin, meaning 'eden on the hill', was settled by Scottish immigrants. Mark Twain said: "The people here are Scots. They stopped here on their way to heaven, thinking they had arrived." Our party of six (all
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