Category: Christchurch and Akaroa

Rosie has never been there before and is very excited!  She pulled out her old battered Lonely Planet of New Zealand and started making notes of all the things she would like to see….excitedly babbling about seeing this and seeing that and going here and eating their.  The Operator quietly said, you do realise a lot of things are probably not there anymore.

Nooooo….. Rosie didn’t really stop to think that….

We are heading for Cathedral Square, the CBD is quiet, unnaturally so, there are no sounds of traffic, everyone is on foot, reverent and quiet.  Orange, brown and yellow leaves rustle through the streets, skittering across the pavement, gathering in drifts in abandoned doorways.  Rosie and The Operator walk past black, dusty windows full of dusty furniture from shops that will never open again.