{"id":637,"date":"2007-12-13T03:39:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/dunedin\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T13:20:15","slug":"dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/dunedin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trip from Queenstown to Dunedin on Wednesday wasn&#8217;t too interesting, we had a stop for breakfast but not much interesting scenery and less interesting driver too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wandered around town a bit, visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofdunedin.com\/city\/?page=sites_osm\">Otago Settlers Museum<\/a> and been on a walking tour of the city.  It does remind me a bit of Edinburgh, partly because of the street names but also all the grand buildings, including the totally over-the-top station.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/SettlersMuseum_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/SettlersMuseum_t.jpg\" title=\"Part of the Otago Settlers Museum, an Art Deco former bus station.\" alt=\"An Art Deco building with cars parked outside.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/DunedinStation_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/DunedinStation_t.jpg\" title=\"The outside of Dunedin's railway station.\" alt=\"A slightly ridiculous neo-gothic revival building on a gloomy day.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/InsideStation_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Dunedin\/InsideStation_t.jpg\" title=\"The tiled interior of the railway station.\" alt=\"A grand tiled interior.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More troubles with hostel roommates: this time two girls having a loudly-whispered argument in the middle of the night, squeaky bunks and somebody&#8217;s iPod dropping on my head early in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip from Queenstown to Dunedin on Wednesday wasn&#8217;t too interesting, we had a stop for breakfast but not much interesting scenery and less interesting driver too. I&#8217;ve wandered around town a bit, visited the Otago Settlers Museum and been on a walking tour of the city. It does remind me a bit of Edinburgh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}