Mike's Christchurch photo album 1) Hi, I'm Mike. I'll be your guide for the next 33 frames. 2) This is me, walking the city with my cameraphone 3) This is looking up in the new Canterbury Art Gallery. Cool building too, even though it was designed by an Aussie.. 4) The facade of the Art Gallery successfully obfuscates the basic box design. 5) Attention to detail with a water- fall along one of the side walls 6) The mighty Avon River 7) Another view from the banks of this meandering midget 8) A charming feature of the Avon is that you can be punted to and fro for no particular reason 9) A view down a corridor in the Provincial Chambers. One day I'll get in to see the auditorium. 10) Facade-ism - an oft-repeated but futile device to preserve Christchuch's architectural heritage. 11) The fog rolled in as Tony and I headed to Tony's work 12) To be used only in emergencies. You can smoke it, too. Tony's car has all the mod cons - including fluorescent tubes underneath the chassis and a cavalry horn. 13) Tony's study door announces his particular proclivities 14) The view from Tony's window is arresting enough - and then one notices the decorative motif.. 15) The Old West comes dead or alive on these walls! 16) These badges are the real thing - no shit! 17) I'm sure this happened to me when I was a toddler. Could explain a couple of things. This little girl is transfixed as a shop assistant dresses a shop dummy. 18) Yes, yes, Captain Contra-deal. Flight Centre did my bookings.. 19) I didn't actually know that it was New Zealand Music Month until I saw this.. 20) The seafood chowder I had at Sumner's On The Beach restaurant. Check the plump mussels and weep! 21) Sound check at Minnie Bagoes. Note the unnaturally high stage and more-than-adequate PA. 22) My favourite part of the Botanical gardens was the spongy topographical bark of the giant whatever trees. 23) My old school, Christ's College. Condell's House, on the top left corner of the Quad, has been preserved for some reason. 24) The Lynch Gate - so called because boys used to go through to the Gardens to eat their lynch.. 25) Another view of Christ's. The top floor of the middle building used to house the art rooms, where I whiled away many a lazy day. OK, week. OK, year.. 26) Where the infamous underground lavatories used to be in Cathedral Square. 27) The location of the Stage Door.. 28) but they've changed the name of the lane. It used to be Hereford Lane 29) Looking from the transept of the Cathedral - that's the view I used to have as a chorister. 30) These pretty windows are new since I was there. 31) That's my CD! 32) Tony suddenly realises that he's in the Crowne Plaza. We met Jan and the kids later at the Lone Star, which has become a bit of a tradition, and where one traditionally overeats. 32) The Lone Star is obviously having an identity crisis and is trying to be all things to all people. 33) Just down stream from Tony's place in Lincoln. I'm talking paradise.     back to the top