Dunedin and the Taieri Gorge Railway

This is the first of two blog posts about Dunedin, an old historic city in the southern part of New Zealand. In this post, I talk about Dunedin and a trip made by my father Brian and my editor Chris Harris on a scenic train trip up the Taieri Gorge, which links Dunedin and the lowlands of the Taieri Plain to the higher plains of the Maniototo: the 'plains of blood', a reference to the red tussock that used to abound up there..