When you drive north from Dunedin on Highway 1, the terrain is rolling hills for the first three hours. Then Highway 1 hits the Canterbury Plain, which I've mentioned before. It is a 110-mile-long flat plain with Christchurch roughly in the middle going north-south. The plain is about 25 miles wide at Christchurch. At the south end, it's maybe 10 miles wide. We have friends who live in Geraldine, a charming very old town on the edge of the plain at its southern end. Half of Geraldine is flat as a pancake, and the other half is hilly. Our hosts took us up to the hilly part to see the view. The first photo looks north and east from that view point in Geraldine, across the miles and miles of farmland that make up the Canterbury Plain.
The second photo is taken from the same spot, looking west to the foothills of the Southern Alps. 
I've shown so many photos of the old houses in Dunedin. I don't think I've shown photos of a typical residential area with newer houses. Here's our friends' house, in the flat part of Geraldine. Their house was built in the 1950s.
On their same block is a house that looks like it's probably close to 100 years old.
The next street behind theirs is just now being developed, so I thought I'd show some of the brand new houses that are being built in New Zealand.
One of the best parts of the weekend was the drive between Geraldine and Methven, the other small town we visited. Methven is about 40 miles north of Geraldine, also on the edge of the Canterbury Plain, so the road between them runs right along the edge of the plain with the foothills and Southern Alps just to the west. It was a gorgeous drive. Below are some photos of the the views to the west from the road between Geraldine and Methven.
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