Christchurch

January 30, 2009

On our second last day in NZ we didn’t do much. Spent some time in used book stores (you read a lot when you travel) and then we thought we would take our friends to a very nice restaurant.

This brings me to a topic that I have been meaning to mention. Screens. Actually it is the lack of screens. Since most of NZ doesn’t have any bugs to speak of they don’t have screens in any of their windows. Now this might sound like a good thing but you need to know that there are dangers associated with this.

If, for example, someone (no names of course) decided that it might be a better thing if the toilet window was open and if (just if) someone’s cat jumped in the window and set off a house alarm while everyone was at dinner in a really nice restaurant then the obvious conclusion would be that the particular someone would be blameless. I mean I don’t know how anyone could come to any other conclusion.

So anyway if you are ever in a really fancy restaurant in downtown Christchurch called Tiffany’s, with a waiter who doesn’t know what a mojito is, just remember that being thoughtful about ventilation can be cancelled out by the odd cat.

Enough said. Don’t you think?