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Speaker 1: Not to Dunedina've been meaning to say this all week,

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Speaker 1: and not to Dunedin, my place of birth, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of fairly happy years in the early part of my

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Speaker 1: radio career. We were back there last month for the

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Speaker 1: graduation of a daughter who's plying her trade in the

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Speaker 1: medical profession. Now, everything about it was awesome. It is

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Speaker 1: what every city in this country should aspire to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: christ Church obviously has got a lot of headlines for

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Speaker 1: doing things well, and Dunedin is not christ Church. It's

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Speaker 1: not been rebuilt or reimagined. Many bits of it are

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Speaker 1: in fact the same as when I worked there thirty

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Speaker 1: years ago, but a lot of bits are better. The

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Speaker 1: EBB Hotel, the EBB Remember the night, brilliant, brilliant, perfectly

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Speaker 1: place you walk everywhere, Importantly, perhaps most importantly, everywhere we went,

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Speaker 1: I mean everywhere, people were friendly, not just friendly, but

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Speaker 1: inquiring and helpful. Not a shop was entered where we

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Speaker 1: got anything but help and interest and advice and service.

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Speaker 1: It was like New Zealand used to be, Or that's

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Speaker 1: the way it seems when you live in a place

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Speaker 1: like Auckland. From restaurants to cafes to an art gallery

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Speaker 1: to hotels, to bars, rental car operators, every single interaction delivered.

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Speaker 1: I honestly cannot remember the last time that happened to me.

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Speaker 1: I asked my daughter whether she would miss it Dunedin that,

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Speaker 1: as she said, six years was plenty, So maybe living

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Speaker 1: there and visiting is different, mind you. The lady at

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Speaker 1: Michael Hill said she'd moved from Auckland, she'd never go back.

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Speaker 1: The airport is still too far from town. They built

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Speaker 1: it with vision. Ironically, the city was supposed to spread

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Speaker 1: across the tiree. It didn't well, not enough, and I

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Speaker 1: think we can conclude now it never will. It was

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Speaker 1: sunny that weekend, by the way, twenty three degrees. Everyone

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Speaker 1: told us how unusual all that was. So maybe we

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Speaker 1: got lucky. I mean, maybe we got lucky. Good weather,

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Speaker 1: nice hotel, we bought three paintings, plane arrived and took

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Speaker 1: off on time. Daughter won some prizes, so we were

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Speaker 1: full of pride. Food was good, service was professional and friendly.

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Speaker 1: So maybe we were lucky, or maybe Dunedin rocks. For

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