Downtown Christchurch

Nov 27: Walked around Christchurch City. There were cool side streets with little stores, cafes and bars. One of the buildings had about 15 bikes hanging as decoration.

There was also a mini cooper hanging on another wall. It seems that New Zealanders enjoy hanging vehicles on city walls. I also went to the main square and snapped a picture of the cone sculpture, it seems to be a fairly well known structure.

There was also a strange man with glasses who was dressed up as a wizard and climbing on a stepladder in the middle of the square.

He was preaching about the wickedness of women. The crazy wizard man said that women are superb liars and are very wicked. We walked by the main square several times and at one point, he had a map out and was gesticulating wildly at it. The Wizard man was probably pointing out the most concentrated areas of wicked women in New Zealand. He is apparently very famous and very crazy. Some NZ guidebooks mention the Wizard man. He also drives an interesting Volkswagen Beetle. It's actually two front halves of two different Beetles that have been welded together. After watching the wizard man rant for a bit, we went to the library.

I have a universal love of libraries. I checked out "Of Love and Other Demons" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers, "Silas Marner" by George Eliot and "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. A life without reading would be a sad life indeed. Walking around Christchurch was fun, but it's not all that different from any other city.