Britomart
This is the new transport centre in Auckland, named the Britomart. Old with the New again, they’ve kept the original front entrance dating back to the 19th Century, but the back end and everything underground is modern.
For some reason I’ve always liked Train Stations, starting from a kid catching the train from Leicester down to London. I guess it’s that anticipation of travel and something exciting to happen, and that the train station is where it starts. There’s more sense of occasion than a car, and less intimidation than an airport.
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[...] This ones for my boy El-V and all the Asian Invasion. This weekend really reminded me of Leicester, as Diwali (Der-waa-lee as Kiwis mispronounce) was celebrated here in down town Auckland. There’s actually a far larger Indian population than I first realised. After having a superb Indian meal from Oh Calcutta in Parnell (which would stand up to anything Ive had on Leicester’s golden mile), I headed down to the Britomart where the celebrations were being held. Loads of food stalls, two stages, big crowd – of course nothing to the scale of Leicester but a little taster of home on the other side of the world. [...]
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