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jimboberelli · 46-50, M
Wow lived on 4, that impressive firefall. and you have been to antartica?
firefall · 61-69, M
Yeah - I was living in Christchurch (NZ) at the time, and hitched a ride on a Hercules with a friend of mine. Only a 2 day stopover, but once you've gone 'Wow thats a lot of snow', there isn't -that- much to do.
jimboberelli · 46-50, M
@firefall: Yes, but your are able to say you went there. There are plenty of places Ive been in the world that I found uninspiring and some are supposed to be amazing cities. But in the end you just feel like, well I can tick that off the list.
firefall · 61-69, M
@jimboberelli: yeah, there's always quite a bit of that in many places, I think.
jimboberelli · 46-50, M
@firefall: Christchurch is nice. I remember the journey up to there from queenstown passing by the cook mountains. Stunning. absolutely gorgeous
firefall · 61-69, M
@jimboberelli: It used to be very pretty. Not so much since the big quakes, I'm told :(
jimboberelli · 46-50, M
I was there when the 12 years ago this year. Just before the last big lot of quakes I believe