During my visit to Dunedin, I went to check out the Ross Creek Reservoir which I had heard was drained due to earthquake damage. Thankfully the lake is still there, it’s just a little lower than it was in the past. I was expecting a hideous mud bog to remain, but the reservoir is still a pleasant place to visit.
I stumbled across this rather plain looking church by accident. I had noticed a ridiculously large number of bullet holes riddling the building beside it, so walked around to try and figure out what it was for. It turned out that this church beside it was the place where Martin Luther King Jr had famously presented a sermon in 1964. The USA government did not want him to travel to East Germany and so had stripped him of his passport, but the USA border guards allowed him through despite this, and he proceeded to pack out a full church for a sermon. After that success, he followed it up with a second sermon at this church (called Sophienkirche).
I never figured out what happened in the building beside it, but I’m guessing there was some sort of battle between the Soviet and German soldiers there in 1945.
Some photos of my old friend Sushi and myself at St Clair beach in Dunedin. We took these whilst I was back for a holiday.
During my visit to New Zealand, I went for a walk along St Clair and St Kilda beaches in Dunedin with my old friend Sushi. The weather was spectacularly good, lots of sun and many people out enjoying the summer heat.
The Rikugi-en gardens is a beautiful part of Tokyo city and well worth visiting if you are in the area.
I visited my home town of Dunedin for the first time in my life recently. Whenever I returned in the past it was because I was coming home. This time around, I returned simply to visit before heading back to Norway. It was slightly surreal to feel like an outsider in my home town, but nice none the less.
Thankfully Dunedin put on some spectacularly good weather for my trip 🙂
