Upon arrival, what would it have been really useful to have known?
Apr 2nd 2008, 1:12 am
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Re: Upon arrival, what would it have been really useful to have known?
ditto
Apr 2nd 2008, 1:44 am
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Re: Upon arrival, what would it have been really useful to have known?
"Edinburgh's nicknames, or epithets include "Edina" "Embra" and "Embro"
Edinburgh has also been known as "Dunedin", deriving from the Scottish Gaelic, D�n �ideann. Dunedin, New Zealand, was originally called "New Edinburgh", and is still nicknamed "The Edinburgh of the South".
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Edinburgh has also been known as "Dunedin", deriving from the Scottish Gaelic, D�n �ideann. Dunedin, New Zealand, was originally called "New Edinburgh", and is still nicknamed "The Edinburgh of the South".
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Apr 2nd 2008, 2:36 am
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Re: Upon arrival, what would it have been really useful to have known?
"Edinburgh's nicknames, or epithets include "Edina" "Embra" and "Embro"
Edinburgh has also been known as "Dunedin", deriving from the Scottish Gaelic, D�n �ideann. Dunedin, New Zealand, was originally called "New Edinburgh", and is still nicknamed "The Edinburgh of the South".
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Edinburgh has also been known as "Dunedin", deriving from the Scottish Gaelic, D�n �ideann. Dunedin, New Zealand, was originally called "New Edinburgh", and is still nicknamed "The Edinburgh of the South".
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Apr 2nd 2008, 3:47 am
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Actually Dunedin's setting is more like in the highlands, at the end of big loch with a ring of mountains around.
http://www.emigratenz.org/NewZealandClimate.html
Fortunately we also have less rainfall than Edinburgh, and more sunshine and average temperatures compared to UK cities (a fact that gets overlooked when the weather gets gets slagged off compared to more northern parts of NZ).
Apr 2nd 2008, 3:56 am
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Snow too.
Apr 2nd 2008, 4:07 am
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Dunedin
The Highlands
The Highlands
Apr 2nd 2008, 5:38 am
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Actually Dunedin's setting is more like in the highlands, at the end of big loch with a ring of mountains around.
http://www.emigratenz.org/NewZealandClimate.html
Fortunately we also have less rainfall than Edinburgh, and more sunshine and average temperatures compared to UK cities (a fact that gets overlooked when the weather gets gets slagged off compared to more northern parts of NZ).
http://www.emigratenz.org/NewZealandClimate.html
Fortunately we also have less rainfall than Edinburgh, and more sunshine and average temperatures compared to UK cities (a fact that gets overlooked when the weather gets gets slagged off compared to more northern parts of NZ).
Apr 2nd 2008, 6:28 am
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Apr 2nd 2008, 6:56 am
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Still we get American amd Asian tourists coming through who don't know any better, and they take pictures of Robbie Burns, video a piping in of the haggis, buy some shortbread, and cross Scotland off their to-do list. Its a bit sad really when there is a lot of better stuff they could be doing around here.
Apr 2nd 2008, 8:23 am
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Yep - some guidebooks and some others in the tourism industry haven't got a lot of imagination, and tend to rehash the original colonial promotional byline: "Edinburgh of the South".
Still we get American amd Asian tourists coming through who don't know any better, and they take pictures of Robbie Burns, video a piping in of the haggis, buy some shortbread, and cross Scotland off their to-do list. Its a bit sad really when there is a lot of better stuff they could be doing around here.
Still we get American amd Asian tourists coming through who don't know any better, and they take pictures of Robbie Burns, video a piping in of the haggis, buy some shortbread, and cross Scotland off their to-do list. Its a bit sad really when there is a lot of better stuff they could be doing around here.
Apr 2nd 2008, 8:47 am
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None of your list are what we have shown our guests when they visit, although Speights may have been had in small quantities.
Apr 2nd 2008, 10:23 pm
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[quote=irnbru14;6134305]Why is it called Manchester?? 
Before World War 2 as New Zealand had been a British colony manufacturers automatically sourced cotton fabrics from Manchester in the United Kingdom. In stores the department that sold cotton goods was called the Manchester department. Europe did produce these fabrics also, but with travel and language problems Manchester was the preferred supplier. The U.S.A. produced good fabrics, but did little or no exporting."
God I love the internet!!!
BTW who else says Yoe-Gurt these days????
I think I pick most of it up from my darling children who I keep constantly correcting!! I know I'm fighting a losing battle but I'm not going to give in easily 
Before World War 2 as New Zealand had been a British colony manufacturers automatically sourced cotton fabrics from Manchester in the United Kingdom. In stores the department that sold cotton goods was called the Manchester department. Europe did produce these fabrics also, but with travel and language problems Manchester was the preferred supplier. The U.S.A. produced good fabrics, but did little or no exporting."
God I love the internet!!!
BTW who else says Yoe-Gurt these days????
I think I pick most of it up from my darling children who I keep constantly correcting!! I know I'm fighting a losing battle but I'm not going to give in easily
Apr 2nd 2008, 10:36 pm
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Re: Upon arrival, what would it have been really useful to have known?
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
I can put this on a tape for nightime listening if you want
Apr 2nd 2008, 10:39 pm
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just give in and disengage the brain, and don't forget:
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
I can put this on a tape for nightime listening if you want
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
.........Kiwi Good, Other Way Bad.....
I can put this on a tape for nightime listening if you want
So what is your accent like these days??
What does a Black Country Kiwi sound like 