Saturday, 1 May 2010

Pier over the Pacific



After our visit to Brighton last year, it seemed fitting to pay a visit to New Brighton in Christchurch. Complete with pier and everything:



Not quite the wooden amusement coated monstrosity from the original Brighton, the elegance of this one was quite charming, and made a much more pleasurable stroll out to the end and back. Which is all you do with a pier anyway. Never quite understood the point...

Still, the autumn light was beautiful and my trusty mobile phone saved the day as we had both forgotten our cameras.

3 comments:

pen said...

hey!
you could have done Brighton when you were here in Melbourne for a hat-trick!

charinthecity said...

Good idea. Maybe I can con my cousin into doing the legwork for us...

Chris Barton said...

That looks amazingly similar to Brighton in the UK, if perhaps a little nicer!