Ben went to Christchurch for a few days this week and spent some time cycling around and taking photos. This is what he saw.




















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Ben went to Christchurch for a few days this week and spent some time cycling around and taking photos. This is what he saw.
8 responses to “Photos from Christchurch”
Wow. It looks beautiful, somewhat repaired and lived-in, yet still eerie – especially the abandoned houses. I remember going to that park when we came over just before Elizabeth was born, and playing with Daniel on the slide. It looks very different now.
Looks like Christchurch is slowly coming back to life 🙂
That’s interesting. I saw the photos and felt sad. The abandoned homes, the vacant CBD, the broken churches still waiting to be repaired.
Thanks for those fascinating photos, Ben, although I felt very sad looking through them. I remember that Baptist church very well as we used to pass it on our way into the city from Linwood, or maybe cycled past it a few times. It always looked so solid as though it would be there forever….and then the lovely homes with no one living in them..
Thanks for posting these. Sad to see the abandoned houses and the empty CBD. I’d find these scenes hard to live with day by day as they’d be a constant reminder of the earthquakes.
Being an ex-pat from Chch living in Brazil, I missed the earthquakes, but heard a lot about them from family. These are the best photos I have seen of the aftermath, thank you.
AV
I’m glad you liked them. Christchurch is not the city it used to be. There is no city centre anymore and so many of the beautiful buildings are gone. It’s very sad.
Mum remarked several times that I simply wouldn’t recognise the place now, and that she found driving (she was 89) difficult without familiar landmarks for navigation.
I don’t think I would like to return now.
AV