That would be Dunedin, known as the Edinburgh of the South. Dunedin is the Gaelic word for Edinburgh. We had the weather to match as well - an overcast Scottish day.
This is a fairly large city for NZ and fascinating to walk around. After a brief time as a whaling town in the 1830's, a group of Scots were settled here. One town elder was the poet Robert Burns' nephew. They were an industrious lot and established NZ's first university here. There was a building frenzy fueled by a nearby gold rush in the 1860's. The Gothic-Revival architecture is its defining characteristic. Not your typical NZ city.
We walk for several hours seeing the Otago Museum, the botanic gardens and stroll through the University grounds.
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