Simon & Caroline's World Tour 07/08

Dunedin is named after Edinburgh, or more accurately, Edinburgh of about 600AD, before the Angles, er, Anglesized it! There are plenty of street and suburb names from Edinburgh, and there are plenty of old style buildings to match too, but there were only a couple of sights we really wanted to see before moving on (you'll note the train station was obviously top of the list, but done yesterday ;-) ).

First up was Signal Hill, at the top of a very high and steep hill, but fortunately with a road all the way up. The memorial celebrates 100 years of colonial rule, but more importantly there is a lump of the real Edinburgh there, from castlehill itself. Next sight was also on the same steep hill, well it actually is the steep hill. Baldwin Street is the world's steepest street, and we walked/ran/staggered up to the top, then watched the Japanese tourists do the same, along with a few cars at high speed. The walk down gave us chance to get more silly photos in the same style as San Francisco, as well as an excuse to run uncontrollably to the bottom.