Insiders Dunedin
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
Seven ways in. Pick the one that catches your eye.
What we've been looking at lately.
Dunedin's Chinese Garden was built in Shanghai, shipped here in 40 containers and reassembled on Rattray Street. The story behind Lan Yuan's wall.
9 September 2026
The world's steepest street is also 350 metres of North East Valley where people actually live. Here is Baldwin Street from the residents' side.
From St Clair pool to harbour edges and rock pools only locals know, Dunedin wild swimming is cold, unbranded, and done year-round without complaint.
Repair cafes, mens sheds, sewing circles, and bike co-ops. Inside the volunteer-run workshop spaces where Dunedinites teach each other practical skills.
Started as a side project between a handful of Dunedin locals who kept running into the same problem: they'd discover something brilliant - a new bar in a converted warehouse, a walking track they'd somehow never done, a ceramicist working out of a garage in Port Chalmers - and have nowhere to put the story except a Facebook post that would vanish in a day.
A shared blog became a proper site when they realised other people were having the same experience. Dunedin has always been full of things worth knowing about; it was just missing a place to collect them.
The stories, people, and places that make Dunedin worth paying attention to. In your inbox when we have something worth sharing.
