While Dan had to go into "work" or school or whatever, Pocket & I went exploring. This is him in front of the Dunedin Railroad Station. It is huge -- Dunedin is known for its architecture and several buildings including the University buildings are in this same style. There is only one train out of Dunedin now, and it runs just a few times a day as a tourist train to look at the countryside. The Station is now a train museum and the local farmers market it held here on Saturdays. We went to the farmers market this week & it was great. Lots of people go there and there is tons of food -- sort of like the farmers market in Madison except more fresh fish since we are living on a harbor.
Across from the Railroad Station is the Law Courts building. Again, same style of architecture. This building is interesting in that (like most court buildings) there is a statue of Justice with her scales in hand. What is unusual (and sorry no picture) is that she isn't blindfolded -- I guess the low helmet she wears is supposed to blind her. So in Dunedin at least, Justice is not blind.
Unfortunately this picture didn't get the tip of the steeple, but this is the First Church of Otago. First Church has a history dating back to the first Free Church settlers in Otago and beyond them to the Scottish disruption of 1843. A very impressive church built up on a hill in the middle of the city.
While Dan had to go into "work" or school or whatever, Pocket & I went exploring. This is him in front of the Dunedin Railroad Station. It is huge -- Dunedin is known for its architecture and several buildings including the University buildings are in this same style. There is only one train out of Dunedin now, and it runs just a few times a day as a tourist train to look at the countryside. The Station is now a train museum and the local farmers market it held here on Saturdays. We went to the farmers market this week & it was great. Lots of people go there and there is tons of food -- sort of like the farmers market in Madison except more fresh fish since we are living on a harbor.
Across from the Railroad Station is the Law Courts building. Again, same style of architecture. This building is interesting in that (like most court buildings) there is a statue of Justice with her scales in hand. What is unusual (and sorry no picture) is that she isn't blindfolded -- I guess the low helmet she wears is supposed to blind her. So in Dunedin at least, Justice is not blind.
Unfortunately this picture didn't get the tip of the steeple, but this is the First Church of Otago. First Church has a history dating back to the first Free Church settlers in Otago and beyond them to the Scottish disruption of 1843. A very impressive church built up on a hill in the middle of the city.
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