Mona Vale Christchurch

63 Fendalton Rd, Riccarton Christchurch , Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand - Phone: +64 (0)3 348 9660
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    Attraction Type:

    Historic home, Garden

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    As English as putting Mayo on your chips

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    ... lakes, botanical gardens and golf course before popping around the corner to take a look at one of the city's most historic homes, Mona Vale, with its Englishy homestead and sweeping lawns on the banks of the Avon. We'd have loved to have gone inside ...

  • 2

    Life on the Plains

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    ... that flower-hunting Sheila found in the guide book. From there we continued south to our night's destination of Ashburton. Ashburton isn't a New Zealand holiday hot-spot...it's a quiet and sprawling town in the middle of the Canterbury Plain. We chose to ...

  • 3

    Christchurch

    Walked in the Botanic Gardens, and the gardens of Mona Vale. Dropped my rental car, and walked about the city for the next four days, taking in the Buskers Festival, the Maori and European history of the region at the Museum, getting a haircut, and more ...

  • 4

    Long Overdue

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    ... stone and rock from Christchurch’s buildings came from.  We also went on a walk around a nice little area of Christchurch called Mona Vale.  It’s full of gardens and nice trees, plants and flowers.  We still haven’t ...

  • 5

    The Grand Tour

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    ... predicted. We started our tour in Cathedral Square, where we boarded our bus. We drove through the city to the Mona Vale Gardens. The Gardens are gorgeous, there are flowers everywhere and everything is so well maintained. They were originally ...

  • 6

    Wonderful, Fun Day!

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    ... .  We then boarded our coaches for our return trip to Christchurch.  We made several stops in Christchurch.  The first was the Mona Vale Gardens.  Very pretty and quaint.  Our next stop was the Art Center where, unfortunately, we ...

  • 7

    Christchurch

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    Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand, Friday, February 11, 2011 – Day 37            Arrived at approximately 8 AM into Lyttleton Harbor and from there traveled across the mountains ...

  • 8

    Into the High Country

    ... at the base of the hills of the Banks Peninsula.  It is often described as the most English of New Zealand’s cities.  The name Christchurch comes fro Christ Church College at Oxford, as one of the leaders of the early settlers was ...

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    Segways in Christchurch

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    ... a little early arriving there, so looked around the area and saw the punts on the Avon and noticed a plaque commemorating the fact that New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote in 1893.  PHOTO_ID_R=on-our-way.jpg] Graeme Gordon ...

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    World Buskers Festival

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    ... the city so a really good atmosphere. Also popped into the botanic gardens and the local musuem. On Sunday we headed to Mona Vale which is a country house surrounded by gardens and the Avon river  You can have cream tea on the lawn which ...