The largest city on the South Island once boasted that it was “More English than England.” It might still be true, if one thinks of Croydon, Bradford, or some such. Unfortunately the city seems to still be struggling to recover from the 2011 earthquake. The once stately city center is mostly gone, replaced (if at all) by modern construction. There’s also more graffiti than one expects to see in a Kiwi city.
Maybe it’s me. I was never overly fond of the place with its British pretensions and tiresome “wizard.”
“So what did you do, Mr. Grumpy?”, I hear you ask. We visited the Art Gallery and saw three interesting shows: one on a local painter who worked near Kaiteriteri (where we were a week or so earlier), one about “alternative presentations of body images” or something, and one on British linocuts from the Jazz age. The last was my favorite.
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