Yes, strange title I know. It's a Fort from WWII on Waikeke Island and we did the tourist thing the weekend before I went to Bangkok. There was a housefull of people, some of who were not comfortable with going way underground with torches as their only source of light but the intrepid ones amongst us soldiered on.
Its all rather strange as the gun emplacement was manned and supported by hundreds of soldiers and the gun lowered itself below ground level to maintain so-called secrecy but the off-duty soldiers were ferried across the bay to a nearby pub each weekend so everyone knew who they were and why they were there.
The picture of Chris (one of the house guests and wife of the ex-Pres of the NZ Architects' Assn. who I mentioned in an earlier blog)is there because I really like the juxtaposition of the red in the door, her lipstick and her poppy (it was Anzac weekend).
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