Christchurch (2)

No way you can miss the café on the side of the road, with such a sculpture in front of it!

This is my cell for tonight. Yes, I said cell, because tonight I will sleep in jail...

The historical jailhouse of Christchurch was converted into a backpackers, and they have changed the layout as little as possible, so the atmosphere is very special. But it is a really nice place (nowadays, of course...).

The last walk will bring me to the Avon, and to the Botanic Garden:

 

 

And here is the Arts Centre, a former college which is now used to host different kinds of art performance, and which survived the earthquake reasonably well:

Dunedin

My next stop is in Dunedin. Its name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh. The city is home to the University of Otago, New Zealand's oldest university (established in 1869).

The most spectacular building is the train station:

Here are a few more buildings, from the University district:

 

The weather is perfect today, good opportunity to visit the awesome Botanic Garden, and enjoy the blooming flowers from the Southern hemisphere spring.

The sabbatical holiday started with the cherry blossom in Japan, and this trip is the last one before I switch to biathlon and cross country races in 10 days, so I almost have the feeling that I am back where I started, 7 months and a half ago...
But I still have a few more days in New Zealand and Australia, it is not completely finished yet...