Dunedin: Life in New Zealand. Part 15

Lime scooters were officially allowed to have their company in town from mid January 2019. Basically an overnight life changing scenario, where these scooters were not there one day, and EVERYWHERE the next, on a permanent basis. These things litter the streets everywhere they are allowed to operate. All for the sake of picking one off the ground and using it to travel some distance for a price. But their business model is shoddy because they are allowed to litter the streets with thousands of them. The company, and subsequent others, started in America. The money doesn't even go to NZ. It goes directly to American corporations.

Not my photo. Just imagine the odd one parked or dumped in the middle of the foot path and that would be about right.

The trend continues with e-bikes too. An NZ owned company started up too, so at least this is more ethical, I guess.

an e-bike dumped on the footpath in Auckland

On the 24th January we went to this weird art exhibition in an empty warehouse. It was hosted by the same artists that did the winter festival. It wasn't much cop, but still something to do.

We went to a coffee shop which we haven't tried before. It had a coconut smoothy which was amazing. the salmon bagel was delicious too.

Our washroom tap started to leak. So that was an interesting journey trying to buy and install a replacement myself. But we found a tap from Bunnings that wasn't that expensive. However we originally went to the specialist store where they had an updated version of the actual tap that was broken, but it was extortionately expensive. Installing the new tap only needed a bunch of spanners, patience, and a YouTube video.

I decided to take a chance and buy the most inexpensive can of baked beans from Pac N Save. Turns out it has the exact same taste and texture as the most expensive on the shelf; that being the Heinz UK recipe. I have to note that the normal range of baked beans in NZ has a more sweet taste, so I was really wowed to find a decent UK standard normal one for the fraction of the usual price.