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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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just watching the ducks
waddle in and out of the water, as some boats floated leisurely by.
Around 7:00pm, I walked up the hill along the main street to get some
dinner. There was a classy pizza joint that seemed pretty busy, so I
ordered a pizza to go, figuring I'd take it back to the motel with me, where
I needed to do my laundry. I ordered the pizza, but was told it'd be 45
minutes before it was ready. So much for speedy service.
While waiting, I walked around the shops, and noticed a movie flyer on an
old building. It was the town hall, and it had been converted -- for the
weekend -- into a cinema. Every weekend, two different movies are shown,
and had I not already seen them, and had dirty laundry waiting back at the
motel, I certainly would have bought myself a ticket. However, I still
wanted to see how they converted the town hall into a cinema, so I walked
into the lobby while the movie "The First Wives Club" was in progress.
Indeed, the town hall looked like a town hall, not a cinema, but every
weekend, it magically turns into one. All along the walls of the lobby were
posters of movies -- American, European, Australian and New Zealand films,
past and present, and two workers were finishing setting up the snack
table. I talked a bit to one of them, and he seemed quite a film buff. It
was about to be intermission, and soon, people would be coming out to buy
cookies and drinks. I asked him if movies always had intermissions in New
Zealand. His reply was "In Wanaka they do... in order to give people a
break, and sell snacks to raise the money to get the films" (there is an
admission charge, but it was much less than what would be charged by one of
the large city cinemas).
When intermission came, the doors opened, and I had a look inside the
"cinema". There was a fair-sized screen, and for the audience, ...

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