Hello Rachel, welcome back. Rachel, you live in Valencia but you..erm..have lived in Christchurch for many years. What differences are there between the two cities?

Well, lets begin with size. Christchurch, even though it’s the second biggest city in New Zealand, is actually much smaller than Valencia having only 350.000 people. Erm... the climate is also different, Christchurch has a much dryer climate, it’s not humid like Valencia. And the summer’s much shorter, although we do have some very hot days. Also... what else?

The...Christchurch is on the coast, isn’t it? Erm... are water sports popular?

Water sports are very popular in Christchurch yes, surfing especially is popular, the.. erm.. what else... yachting, kayaking, water sports in general yeah really popular.

What about food, are the eating times similar to.. to Spain?

No, not at all, everything’s a couple of hours earlier, people have.., always have breakfast at home, when they get up which is usually about half past six or seven, and lunch is around twelve or one, and then people eat dinner probably about.. mm.. six or seven o’clock at night.

Okay, and.. er.. shopping, tell us about shopping in.. in Christchurch.

Mm..well, in Christchurch we have lots of shopping malls, and the great thing, that I.. I.. I think is great, is that you can go shopping seven days a week. So even on Sundays you can go shopping, in the supermarkets and everywhere.

Okay, thank you very much.

You’re welcome.

 Vocabulario

Shopping mall = centro comercial
Yachting = navegar en yate