I would like to know if there's a common signpost that welcomes you when you arrive at an airport in New Zealand? If yes, what does it say? Is there a picture/drawing on it, too maybe
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I second glitterburn's point about sunscreen being a summer smell - it's hardwired into my brain that summer is the smell of sunscreen, salt, and mowed grass, and feels like burning, burning sun.
As for the Dunedin airport - I don't know if you're planning on putting the story there, but just in case - it's a good forty minutes' drive outside the city proper though still, I think, within the technical city limits, so the environment is very wide-open skies and farmland for a good way around, with mountains a way off.
Also - again, probably not a vital point, but an interesting detail nonetheless - on the subject of Dunedin's city limits, when I was at high school the foreign exchange students always remarked how much they liked Dunedin, because the terms of their exchange said they weren't to leave their host city limits without notifying/getting permission from host families/the programme, but since Dunedin technically encompasses a whole lot of not-city, they could take day trips out and wander around the countryside or bush without breaking the terms of their exchange.
I second glitterburn's point about sunscreen being a summer smell - it's hardwired into my brain that summer is the smell of sunscreen, salt, and mowed grass, and feels like burning, burning sun.
As for the Dunedin airport - I don't know if you're planning on putting the story there, but just in case - it's a good forty minutes' drive outside the city proper though still, I think, within the technical city limits, so the environment is very wide-open skies and farmland for a good way around, with mountains a way off.
Also - again, probably not a vital point, but an interesting detail nonetheless - on the subject of Dunedin's city limits, when I was at high school the foreign exchange students always remarked how much they liked Dunedin, because the terms of their exchange said they weren't to leave their host city limits without notifying/getting permission from host families/the programme, but since Dunedin technically encompasses a whole lot of not-city, they could take day trips out and wander around the countryside or bush without breaking the terms of their exchange.
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