We’ve been waiting for a rain day to visit the Tapestry Museum, but it hasn’t happened yet, so today decide to go for it anyway. The building the museum is in was once the Palais de L’Archeveche (Palais of the Archbishop) and is adjacent to the Cathedral. The archbishops held considerable wealth and rank within…
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It’s our last full day in Christchurch and we head out to the Quake Museum. It is a very thoughtful exhibition that details the events of both the September 2010 and the February 2011 quakes. There is some disconcerting video that captures the moment the 2011 quake hit. Unfortunately, it was at 12:51 pm in…
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We tried to get an earlier start this morning as it is our only full day in Wellington. After a nice breakfast in the flat, we walk down to ‘Te Papa Tongarewa’, the National Museum and Art Gallery of New Zealand. A small portion of the museum is under construction, but the 4th floor houses…
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It’s an early get-up-and-go as we need to be at Melbourne airport by 7 to check into our flight to Wellington, NZ. Our Uber driver is good company for the drive – a Pakistani gent on maternity leave (child born a few days ago which in AUS means as a dad he gets leave) who…
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