Coffee Zone

After Physiotherapy on my knee I took a drive to Sydenham where there is a lot of street art I haven't yet captured.

Sydenham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, located two kilometres south of the city centre, on and around the city’s main street, Colombo Street. It is a retail and residential suburb. In the earthquakes Sydenham lost a number of Heritage buildings along with many more.

This Pop Up coffee shop is one of the sites where a building had to come down because of earthquake damage. The words you can see on the left hand side reads;
'The things which i have seen i now can see no more'
Which is so true for any one who lives or knows Christchurch.

This area has been tired up by Gap Filler. Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the September 4, 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive February 22, 2011 quake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust and aims to temporarily activate vacant sites within Christchurch with creative projects for community benefit, to make for a more interesting, dynamic and vibrant city.

I did take a number of shots and it was hard it know which one to use. This one I chose was I thought it was really colourful and it shows you what is happing around Christchurch.