{"id":2273,"date":"2009-08-15T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/otautahi-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:50:00","slug":"otautahi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/otautahi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u014ctautahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in \u014ctautahi <i>&#8220;the place of Tautahi&#8221;<\/i> like the Maori named it, or Christchurch, like the Brits named it.<br \/>\nWe drove to the car rental place and the boys had a couple of hours to kill while waiting for the car to get fixed, so we strolled around on the streets. What city named Christchurch would not have a church as the central point of the city?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2JgpdoDI\/AAAAAAAACkE\/g8jcb-_AFNs\/s1600-h\/IMG_0167.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"780\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372853892463566898\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2JgpdoDI\/AAAAAAAACkE\/g8jcb-_AFNs\/s1600\/IMG_0167.jpg?resize=780%2C780\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;\" width=\"780\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2JEZN3qI\/AAAAAAAACj8\/ZxCdMR7OFz0\/s1600-h\/IMG_0163.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"780\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372853884879232674\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2JEZN3qI\/AAAAAAAACj8\/ZxCdMR7OFz0\/s1600\/IMG_0163.jpg?fit=1200%2C780\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a>I spotted the Real Groovy record store which is the best record store in the world! I had to visit it, and since I will no longer sing for the boys in the backseat, they had to pick up a few cd&#8217;s for the rest of their NZ visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2IrIxHWI\/AAAAAAAACj0\/s2QXzprqIos\/s1600-h\/IMG_0162.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"780\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372853878099352930\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SpA2IrIxHWI\/AAAAAAAACj0\/s2QXzprqIos\/s1600\/IMG_0162.jpg?fit=1200%2C780\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a>This Real Groovy was not as good as the one in Auckland or Wellington, but still all right.<br \/>\nI said good bye to my friends, they continued down to Wanaka and I am getting ready for my flight back home tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in \u014ctautahi &#8220;the place of Tautahi&#8221; like the Maori named it, or Christchurch, like the Brits named it. 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