More Postcards from Christchurch
Something beautiful, something ugly, something strange and a christmas greeting from Christchurch
Strange familiar
“I don’t know why you’re making such a fuss of going to New Zealand for 10 weeks”, said my friend T. over a farewell beer. “Sometimes we don’t meet up for a whole year, so why don’t you shout me a beer then?!” I was quite proud of the answer I came up with: “Absence…
Log / 29.11.2017 / Around the world in 80 hours*
(* or more accurately: “Around half the world in 37 hours”, but that’s not much of a title!) One million bags of flour We have been in Christchurch for 10 days now, which is a bit late for a description of “first impressions”. But believe me, at the time I was too busy having those…
Same same but different
Everything is different in New Zealand, they say: Christmas is in summer, which is in winter. Water goes down the plughole in the same direction as in Germany, which is precisely the opposite to what everyone tells you. An above-average number of New Zealand have an above-average standard of dress, especially if you include the…
Neuseeland – Alles genauso nur anders
Über Weihnachten im Sommer, Menschenrechte für Menschenaffen und die leidige Sache mit der Abfluss-Drehrichtung