A Gorges Journey -- Get It :)
A night with the penguins leads to a day on the railroad! Ned dropped us off early at the lovely Dunedin rail station--the city's most photographed site--and rushed up the street to drop off our rented minivan. Located right next to the Cadbury plant, fronted by ornate, sculpted gardens, the train station looks like a giant gingerbread creation. Back in the day, when Dunedin was a bustling commercial hub, the train station was an engine of commerce. Today, its entire purpose is tourism: sending off trains that basically go "nowhere" except to sight-see. Inside the station, millions of small tiles create mosaics that speak to the past, when a train or even electricity was something remarkable and worthy of commemoration in artful design. Imagine the craftsmen setting each of these tiny tiles in anticipation of the station opening in 1906, so proud of all that it meant to this city and to the future. There could ha...