Staircase - Dunedin Railway Station

Dunedin Railway Station - possibly the best-known building in the southern half of New Zealand's South Island.

How do you photograph such a popular building? Its heavily detailed inside and out, colours warm and mellow inside and dark and light stone were used on the outside, the style was of Flemish renaissance.

The booking hall features a mosaic floor of almost 750,000 Minton tiles. A frieze of Royal Doulton porcelain runs around the balcony above it from which the floor's design (featuring a locomotive and related symbols) can be clearly seen.

I chose the staircase - small but fairly wide, well proportioned stairs - great for the shorter framed person like myself, a beautiful iron banister with a nicely polished wooden rail. But it was the mosaic tiles which took my eye as I looked down, the colours and letters symbolizing New Zealand Rail (NZR) with the train wheel sitting nicely against the warm mint and yellow walls.

Our last hour was spent in this beautiful building - a step back in time and still used today.

Hubby and I enjoyed our time in this lovely city - Daughter E and her girlfriend V also enjoyed their time at the Cadbury Festival, they spent the morning at the Jaffa race down the steepest road in the world - Baldwin Street.

Our time was short, a few days is certainly not long enough to do this area justice - Hubby and I will be returning as there is so much more to explore and learn.