Pacific View Paradise Bed & Breakfast Christchurch
17 Harry Ell Drive Christchurch, Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, 8022, New Zealand
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Christchurch – a new normal
... bzw. stelle ich mir so eine Stadt nach dem Krieg vor. Die Innenstadt ist komplett abgesperrt (Red Zone) und eine einzige construction site, bis auf den Baulärm hört man nichts. Keine Autos, kein Leben auf den Straßen – außer Baustellenverkehr laufen nur vereinzelte Touristen herum – ich kann nicht verstehen, wieso die Photos schießen können. Man spürt, dass dieser Stadt die Seele genommen ...
Kiwi...thought it was a fruit not a bird!
... from the earthquakes.
I headed back with a thai takeaway in hand, to the guesthouse were other backpackers were eaten. I sat next to a pretty american girl and asked where her and her friend came from "Vermont" she said. After finding out there plans and what they had done, a englishman in his 60's started to talk to me and the girls sodded off..typical!
The man in question was Richard a semi retired ...
Arrival in New Zealand
... smoothing the pavement if you're going to have to dig up the streets to fix the sewers as well.
When the driver found out that I was a teacher in Asia, he told me about how Christchurch used to be a really popular destination for students from Asia to come to to learn English. But in the Earthquake, one of the large English Academy's collapsed, and 28 young Japanese students died.
So this made my first impression of the city. From my ...
Ground Zero NZ
... is derelict, a ghost town shut to the public. Churches lay ruined, with their steeples removed. Walking around Christchurch you got a sense of how great a place it used to be, with lovely rivers and old English architecture, which only makes the destruction harder to take in.
The other side of Christchurch can be found further round where the people continue to go about their lives. Illustrated best by a ...
Bye north island. Youve been amazing!
... central Christchurch. Riccarton Rd is grandmother long… And after walking to the end of Riccarton Rd, we had to walk through the ginormous humongous dinosaurous (okay there is no such word, don’t check the dictionary) Hagley Park. Seriously, 30-min my ass…
So let me tell you what central Christchurch is like. The first thing we saw was a grand church, with a huge crack down the middle. There was ************e on the streets, ...


