For this week’s Worldless Wednesday, we travel back to our long weekend trip down to Queenstown and our Sunday drive … More
Tag: Otago
Wordless Wednesday: iconic buildings and other things
For this week’s (semi) Wordless Wednesday we journey back to the South Island, to Cardrona and the famous Cardrona Hotel, … More
Words on Wednesday: the Chinese settlement in Arrowtown
Close by the centre of Arrowtown lies a very different heritage site, the Arrowtown Chinese settlement. It is one of at least ten Chinese settlements that grew up around the gold mining towns in Otago during the late the nineteenth century.
Words on Wednesday: Port Chalmers
As I sat down to map out blog posts on our recent holiday, I struggled to think how to structure them and what to do in what order. It has taken a bit of work but I have decided to do three more posts after today: one on the Royal Albatross Centre, one on ‘things to do indoors’ and one on street art. Hope you will come along for the journey.
A trip to Dunedin (part one)
We are just back today from a short trip down to Dunedin, the ‘Edinburgh of the South’ and the second … More
A castle, a garden and some more familiar names
In the last post, I mentioned the number of places we saw on the map with Scottish names in this … More
Thistles and Kiwis 