It goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy legs, race and rivers, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.
Instead of offering a cold, technical and vandal-proof interior, the design creates a 'lounge' atmosphere, clearly differentiating it from Auckland buses' poor image.
They took and beat them severely with sticks, those two poor faithful creatures, and turned them out into the cold and the wet, with many insulting and uncalled-for remarks!
From the crest there is a view to the ocean, three miles distant, shrouded in fog created by the convergence of desert heat and the icy Benguela Current.