Lyttleton and Christchurch Sunday March 10

A rainy drive around the Banks Peninsula before a coffee/cake stop at Lyttleton.  The first signs of earthquake damage here.  The temperature is pretty near the same as the UK...only 14 C.  Not a `shorts' day, even for Mark.
Christchurch - the most English of New Zealand townships and where Jane and Liz were  born.  This bridge over the Avon is untouched by the earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 but sadly there's huge damage in the centre. 




The Cathedral square seems to be the most devastated....we'll see more tomorrow as we will take a city tour by tram.


We spent the rest of the afternoon at the Canterbury museum - excellent!  Lots about the early settlers, the European development of Christchurch and an exhibition on Antarctic explorations..... including the contribution of dogs.

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  1. Philippa WerryMarch 10, 2019 at 12:56 AM

    Hope you get to see the cardboard cathedral and the chairs memorial. Friends of ours were there recently and thought it was all looking reasonably OK until their Air b and b owner told them that every empty piece of land in the city centre once had a building on it.

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