Yay for the Lyttelton Summer Street Party! It was a gorgeously warm day to drive through to the tunnel to the harbour. Mel and I 'moseyed' around the mainstreet and the local Lyttelton Coffee Company cafe, which was absolutley brilliant. It was like being on holiday for the all of 3 hours we were there.
This guy at Lyttelton Coffee Company was multitasking - roasting beans and DJing some groovy 70s music at the same time. Talented! The coffee drum (?) is swishing around behind him, sending out some delicious aromas.
Lyttelton Coffee Company. I like all the artwork, incl some of the local artists. There are lots of antique chairs and touches, like sugar in fondue pots and water kept in the old glass milk bottles in wire milk carriers. Wish I'd kept a few now. Mel spotted a toddler wandering around munching on the end of a whole telegraph cucumber like it was candy. We'd never seen anything like it before!
Harbourside walk. Mel was telling me how in her childhood, her dad used to sometimes translate for some Russian sea captains and once she went on board one of these ships and ate up a lot of a friendy seaman's fancy chocolates.
The Lyttelton. From the sign beside it, it does go on harbour cruises.
This is the Seafarer's Centre, which was holding it's own mini garage sale. I liked the various flags hung up on the inside. They had eclectic things like black velvet Kiwiana posters and garden gnomes. There is also a stand full of booklets called 'Message to Seafarers' which is in many different languages including Norwegian and Russian, about what to do if you are abandoned at a port many miles from home.
Here's a Lyttelton icon, the Volcano Cafe.
2 comments:
oooo looks like the perfect relaxing sunday!
your mum brought me to lyttleton as well but we didn't stay long. Looks like a quaint little town.
:)
and ewwwww to having butterflies in your house, ahhh!
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