And yes, here we are in ‘New Zealand’, ‘New Zilind’ as the kiwi’s pronounce it.
The real Middle Earth…
Famous because of the Lord of the rings books from Peter Jackson.
Christchurch saw an earthquake in 2011 (6.3 scale of Richter) with 185 people who died. The business district was completely destroyed, most of the survivors moved to other places. But some creative brains put their heads together and out of the rubble rose a a beautiful new city with innovative projects, nice cafes and great street art like Chch as the kiwi’s call it.
Auckland is with its 1.3 million inhabitants ( more than 1/4 of the population), not the capital of NZ . Wellington is. The Maori’s call this land Aotearoa (= land of the long, white cloud) and it is 270.000 square km. NZ does not have creepy crawlers (= spiders or snakes.
Tomorrow at 09h00 we are taking the bus to Akaroa and now we are enjoying ‘roast and mash’ in the rockpool where our waiter Chris is supernice and wifi is free 🙂