From the lighthouse by the sea to Dunedin

First I had to look at what we actually wanted in Dunedin. Took a really long time...we want to see penguins. Because Dundin is really a pearl among the NZ cities...a bit like Bad Offenbach. Everything I've seen of this city so far - admittedly, it hasn't been much - has been, to put it politely, semi-beautiful.

So, we walked around the city a bit, by the way, Dunedin is called Ōtepoti in Maori...sounds like Offenbach. Dunedin is the second largest city on the South Island after Christchurch - and the oldest city in New Zealand. It was founded in 1848 by Scottish immigrants. In honor of their Scottish homeland, they gave the settlement the name Dunedin, Dùn Èideann in Scottish Gaelic or Edinburgh in English. The region was first settled around 1100 AD by Polynesian sailors, from whom two large Maori tribes emerged, the Ngāi Tahu and the Ngāti Toa. Today around 130,000 people live in the city, including around 25,000 students; the proportion of residents with Maori roots is not quite 8 percent.

Nerdy child has discovered a bookstore with old books and brought the weight of our return luggage into a critical range - some illustrated translation of Dante's Inferno: we will suffer our inferno when we check in our luggage at the latest!

Tomorrow we're going to the Otago peninsula...looking at the animals...and there's probably a castle there too.

Addendum: I saw an older woman with flowing hair, a skirt and PINK rubber crocks: Offenbach?

Windshield wiper instead of indicator counter: 102

coming soon

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