Oriental Bay Wellington

Morgens um 9 wurden wir angerufen, wir sollen so schnell wie möglich zum Airport kommen, damit wir das geniale Wetter für unseren Fallschirmsprung ausnutzen könnten. Gesagt, getan. Kurz danach waren wir 4km über dem Boden und sind reihenweise aus dem Flugzeug geflogen. Sky Dive ist auf jeden Fall ziemlich hammer und jeder sollte das mal gemacht …

Heute habe ich nach meinem Büchereibesuch Richtung Strand aufgemacht. Die Bücherei ist echt ein guter Platz für Internet, Kontakt zu freunden und zuhause, Privatsphäre und einfach Zeit für sich. Man kann träumen, Musik hören,... Was man will. Tat gut! Heute ist es extrem windstill, was für Wellington nicht gewöhnlich ist, also war der Strand auch …

... through the sounds because the weather was so bad. We arrived in Wellington on Saturday evening and parked up in the car park of Oriental Bay, where we were able to camp for 2 nights for free (thanks for the tip Jo & Kerry)! We were lucky enough ...

... scenic tour of it's outskirts called the 'Marine Drive Tour'. Our tour began under another cloudless sky in Oriental Bay, a suburb of expensive Victorian villas and fashionable restaurants and followed a coast-cuddling 30km through numerous other ...

... thats right, walk around it. Then I walked to an art gallery and walked around that. Then I walked to Te Papa museum and walked around it for hours! and then at the end of the day I still hadnt had enough so I walked along Oriental Bay..(in the rain) ...

A beach volleyball competition down at oriental bay beach brought me down that way with the Wellington wind being the biggest scorer. The beach being just down from Te Papa I almost headed back there with it being that good before taking a walk around ...

... is quite compact and easy to explore on foot except for the huge hill I have to climb to get home at the end of the day. Oriental Bay is the beachy section of town with a seawall (called the Oriental Parade) and small sandy beach. Cuba Street is a funky ...

... up some sushi in town for us, and we snacked on it at the lookout. We drove back down the hill, parked in Oriental Bay, and walked the boardwalk around the harbour to the CBD downtown.  Locals were enjoying the area, skateboarding, watching adult ...

... The tour was only an hour long but very interesting. It explored some of the similarities and differences between New Zealand and Australia: for instance, unlike other Commonwealth parliaments based on the Westminster system of government, which are ...

... a good place to swap drivers. From there is was just a couple of hours later and we were in the national capital, Wellington (named after Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo). After taking a little time to ...

... had acquired several more levels since my last visit. There were artefacts and exhibits that covered European and Maori settlement of New Zealand, Dutch immigration to New Zealand, natural science, popular culture, social issues; as well as paintings ...

... the tea and bun is welcome. From there we continue downwards on the 'City to Sea' walk which winds through the old Wellington cemetery. Because they blasted a motorway right through it in the 1960's, no-one is buried there now. The bodies were all moved ...