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February 14th 2006

Published: March 7th 2006

I have decided that we are doing the NZ farms and gardens a big favour with our travels. Wherever we go, we bring the rain. We arrive in a new spot, bringing rain. It rains while we are there, and everyone tells us it was fine until now. On the day we leave, the sun comes out, and we drive along baking in the sun. But it clouds over just as we arrive. We had to pass by many interesting things, su... Read Full Entry

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A.L. Carney

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I am doing a few weeks of voluntary work at an environmental learning centre in Central America. For gardening and teaching some local women some felting and other textile crafts, and to update the centre's website. It is a very interesting place, and the programmes are quite impressive. There are 8 volunteers here I think, two of us are twenty nine, and the rest are in their early to mid 20s. The website does better justice to the huge undertaking this has been: http://www.learningcentercostarica.org/ This is from 4 years ago My 25 year old daughter Erin and I are leaving fo... full info

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I'd move here just for the library

I don't get it, a little tiny community on the outskirts of Christchurch, and look at this wonderful place they have, and right on the water!!! It's one way to encourage literacy,...

And on the other end of the library

they have this fabulous cafe restaurant and long causeway in to the water. Wow!

More beach

on the other side of New Brighton. The clouds are some sort of Fast Forming ones I think Pat said.

Lyttleton Harbour

as seen from the Wunderbar deck. Have a look at that ominous sky. Very Scottish I thought.

Lyttleton downtown

There is a funky decor

in the Wunderbar. Check out what passes for lightshades in here. Out the window was a wonderful view of the harbour.

On our way to the Wunderbar

in Lyttleton once we made it out of the foggy hills we went searching for a place for a quiet beer. We managed to squeak by the vigourous screening performed by this sign.

Main street, New Brighton

This street goes down to the ocean. We found a restaurant serving REGULAR FILTEERED COFFEE with a bottomless cup! First time in New Zealand. We had a big breakfast there. With lots of coffee.

End of the self-guided tour

in Christchurch. Thought you'd like to see a regular street without Gothic buildings and cobbled streets.

Driving around the lower part

of Otago Peninsula. This is an estuary.

Clouds threatening

to come down again. The day after the hair raising drive, we went back to Summit Road to see what we missed.

More Otago Peninsula

More dirt.

And in a wide selection of colours and styles.

Some of what we missed

along Summit Road, less cloud.

Which farmer

uses fertilizer do you think?

The next few pix

will be of the wonderful views from Summit Road outside Christchurch.

Summit Drive, Christchurch

Christchurch from above

Summit Drive, Christchurch

It was really worthwhile to go back and see what we missed the day before.

Summit Drive, Christchurch

Erin made the comment that the background islands and hills look like a fake painted backdrop on a theatre stage.

Cattle on the hills

Pat said "what would Uncle Paul's cattle from Colgan do if taken from their slightly hilly fields and stuck out here like these ones?" They'd be frozen by fear.

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