Azeem wrote:
> Ah New Zealand, how I'd love to go again! I spent about a week there
(prior
> to flying over to Sydney for my brother's wedding), driving around the
North
> Island a bit, and it truly is a beautiful country. Rotorua is an
> extraordinary place - Hell didn't mention the smell!! I loved Napier too,
a
> seaside town full of amazing Art Deco buildings. I hope to get there for
> longer next time.
Yes, Rotorua does smell like rotten eggs, due the the sulphur from the
geothermal activity. It just adds to the ambience!
Napier is one of my favourite cities, I've been there a few times on
holiday, and it is beautiful. The buildings are predominantly art-deco -
there are special tours of the city to show off some of the more spectacular
buildings. The reason there are so many is that Napier was hit by a massive
earthquake in (about) 1932, and most of the central city was demolished.
Since art-deco was the "in" architectural style of the time, that's the
style most of the new buildings were built in.
Hell
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