Christchurch

This is a city I could easily live in. Throughout the city there are little parks and courtyards scattered along the Avon Rivers banks making it a great place to forget about work and life and just sit around relaxing. Plus they some how manage to fit a golf course in one of these parks.

The main center square is a great place and in the time I was there they had something on every day ranging from markets to something with crazy cars. There were also a scattering of very talented street performers giving it the feel on Covent Garden. And to ice the cake there is one of those large chess sets for intellectual people (and the occasional student) to battle it out for the grand title of "I am better than you"

To ensure that things stay nice and pretty in the city they have the "Christchurch Beautifing Assosiation" whose sole job is to go around the city and make things look nice. My favorite was a waterwheel in the river surrounded by a little park. The wheel served no purpose and was not attached to anything - Its sole reason for existing was to make the place look nice. This was confirmed by a couple sitting next to me who kept saying "My that looks nice"