Mm Links January 2013 Week 3 – New Contestants Always Welcome.

[Christiana]

This is Queen Christiana, the Cheerful one, continuing with her travels in the Southern Hemisphere and inviting you to guess the links she has chosen, rules in separate posting below.

This week we journey to the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand. South Island is utterly amazing with its glaciers, spectacular scenery and Alpine Express Railway. It was also heartbreaking to witness many of Christchurch’s oldest and finest buildings still standing but scheduled for demolition well over a year after the earthquake of February 2011, due to invisible but deadly structural damage.

For us, the real revelation was the highly scenic but unsung Banks Peninsula. It was formed as the result of violent eruptions, millions of years ago, forming natural harbours, bay and inlets. We stayed in quaintly beautiful Akaroa and enjoyed every minute of it.

In North Island we visited Hobbiton – the ‘home’ setting for the Lord of the Rings films, the art deco town of Napier, and the mind-boggling thermally active areas in and around Rotorua, also fitting in visits to various relatives. Less edifying perhaps, we also discovered what a ‘long-drop’ toilet is, travelled for a while on the Naked Bus, and hired a car from Jucy Car Rentals. The latter was clearly labelled in the back window, “El Cheapo”. Oh, the shame of it.

[lysander]

Harbour lights
Bonnie Banks
Tiger Bay
Thermal springs

[joto]

Harbour Master
Sand Banks
Botany Bay
Thermal Vest

[paulineward]

Harbour LIGHTS
RIVER Banks
Bay WINDOW
Thermal VEST

[gen2]

PLEASE WOULD ALL PLAYERS NOTE
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The results will NOT be posted at the usual time of 7pm on Sunday.
They will be posted very much later - probably around 11pm.
Sorry to keep you waiting. Hope you'll bear with me.
I will check for late entries before posting the results.
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[gen2]

The game closed at 7pm.
Scores have been calculated and the results have been posted here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1209166.html