Wednesday 2 March 2011

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.................

Dear all

Today we spent the day looking around Napier. Unfortunately in 1931, this town was raised to the ground, by a devastating earthquake. Luckily for Napier now is that the cheap method of building at the time was concrete, and the style Art Deco. So most of the streets are now mostly full of beautiful Art Deco buildings, which is a huge draw for tourists and gives it a very affluent, seaside feel.  Its a ovely place to wonder around unless you pick the day the cruise ship is in ! We also managed to pick up a parking ticket for parking the wrong way round on a street. Apparently in NZ you have to all park in one direction on a street, how odd! Anyway Dean sent me into the council offices and they let me off on production of our passport as we were tourists who didn't know better. Sometimes ignorance does pay off!
Nite all






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