{"id":241,"date":"2008-06-29T06:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:45","slug":"christchurch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/christchurch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here down South it&#8217;s definitely colder than in Wellington &#8211; more like proper winter, with temperatures here in Christchurch around 5 degrees. That wouldn&#8217;t be bad, but in addition it&#8217;s very wet &#8211; especially yesterday it felt a bit like the end of the world, it was raining so hard. *shivers*<\/p>\n<p>I ended up going to the beach in New Brighton anyway and got thoroughly soaked. To make up for this, I spent the evening watching a kiwi movie, &#8216;Second-Hand Wedding&#8217; which was cute and funny. Today my tour to the Lord of the Rings location of Edoras was cancelled, but the weather was a bit better (still cold, though) and I took the Gondola up the mountain in the afternoon, after spending the morning at the Canterbury museum. That was quite interesting, with Antarctica and Leonardo da Vinci exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>I also managed to upload the photos I took so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2620410872\/\" title=\"Leaving Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3210\/2620410872_481f4b928b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Leaving Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2619587107\/\" title=\"Christchurch by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3103\/2619587107_69c462a1bf_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Christchurch\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2620412108\/\" title=\"Christchurch by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3094\/2620412108_157e00d297_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Christchurch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest can be found in my <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/album\/72157603121222878\/New-Zealand-2007-08.html\">New Zealand album<\/a>, as usual. Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to Dunedin &#8211; will catch up with you again there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here down South it&#8217;s definitely colder than in Wellington &#8211; more like proper winter, with temperatures here in Christchurch around 5 degrees. That wouldn&#8217;t be bad, but in addition it&#8217;s very wet &#8211; especially yesterday it felt a bit like the end of the world, it was raining so hard. *shivers* I ended up going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/christchurch-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christchurch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}