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Garden City to City of Sails

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I had a hang up at first in first walk on the roads after a year of not visiting the city of sails. I got used to the flat surface of the garden city where I permanently settled. Arena Hotel where I checked in is situated in Beach Road and I got to walk a few meters to reach Auckland University for a water modeling seminar. The map told me that it was just transferring from one road to a parallel road and off you go straight to the university. What the map did not tell me is that the trailing road got a few meters higher than Beach Road. Hilly roads were alright and I got no serious rheumatism complaining about it but the realization that I got used to the flat surface of Christchurch made me more and more foreign to other cities of NZ. Seeing Auckland again made me miss it. “Wait till you see the severe undulating surface of Wellington”, mentioned one of my colleagues in the seminar who works in Wellington. Hmmmm. I felt more foreign.