First of all, New Zealanders obviously share my sense of humour...
...and secondly, satellite dishes have to be much bigger in the southern hemisphere to pick up the full range of channels...
...not really. Although they do all point north, rather than pointing south like they do at home. The sun is also always in the north, which would be weird if being conscious of which way north actually was was a preoccupation. Which it isn't. Oh, and the water doesn't go down the plug hole in the opposite direction, just to shatter another myth. That's an old wives' tale.
Anyway, there is an interseting memorial garden to fire fighters in the city, with this sculpture...
Which would be lovely, but the paving slabs in the garden are all sponsored and have advertising on them. Like this one...
...which sits uncomfortably with the theme of the scuplture.
I also found two more statues of conquerors and subjugators. Which I suppose is better than finding statues of conjugators...
Victoria looks a bit stern...
...but then she is probably not finding anything funny.
And James Cook...
...well, there goes my brown cheesy in Trivial Pursuit down the drain again. He has a mountain named after him. He lived in Whitby. Tell me more, someone!
And, by the way, the tram goes through a shopping centre...
Cool! (Or, just possibly, dangerous...)
3 comments:
For his first voyage Cook was hired by the Royal Society to track the path of Venus across the sun...which turned out to be very flawed! He was only the second European to reach New Zealand(Abel Tasman managed it 100 years before Cook). He almost accurately mapped the coastline of NZ and the Cook straits, separating north and south islands, are named after him as Tasman seemed to have failed to discover there were 2 separate islands! First European to reach the east coast of Australia.
He knew about citrus fruits stopping scurvy and force fed them to the crew...anyone not complying was flogged. I believe the Government may bring this in to ensure 5 portions of fruit and veg a day!
He died after an altercation about stolen boats and kidnapped Hawaiin chiefs and was speared to death!
Lots of other stuff really but those are your key facts :-)
Cheers! I knew someone would bail me out! :-)
Apart from the islands.
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