Number 11 Hay Street Wellington

... stuff to check out, we took the tram up to the botanical gardens, was up there for 2 minutes and just liek that a storm came in from nowhere so we kinda explored the gardens played on the park like i was 5 again (or sis i never grow up) and then headed back to the city for some shelter and explored the historical buildings etc! One real strange thing is that the Parliament of New Zealand is located in an arcade...don't get how ...

... we had to either call or text people to see apartments and figured we'd also need a number so people can get ahold of us if they see our resume and want an interview. It's kind of funny having a phone service four people (almost as funny as having four girls live in one bedroom)...but it is workable.

Last night we put our bunk bed matresses down on the floor of our hostel room so we could have a slumber party and watch a movie. It was ...

... Leszek. The boys have great imagination and call the VW people carrier "the rocket". My car is the "little rocket!" When Sascha is strapped in and ready, he says "ready for launching"... so cute. :) Joseph is very bright, contemplative and loves lego, computer games and fencing. He appears to have inherited his fathers skill for art (father is a very talented artist). Another great aspect are the boys enthusiasm about food. They don't ...

Weather: rubbish. windy, just really really windy.
Mood: not even worth talking about

New Zealand is a beautiful place. It's rugged. It's green. It's agriculturally poignant and somewhat quaint. It's homey. It's metropolitan areas, which you can escape in a matter of minutes to enjoy the surrounding rural areas during a pleasant hike. It's high quality vineyards with a warm, completely non-snooty welcome.

I love it.

Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand webbecca

... rest of the afternoon dipping in and out of all sorts of exhibits. Good job too as it was blowing a gale and horizontal rain outside as Wellington showed what changeable weather means in New Zealand.

The squall blew through by about 3:30pm when I met up with the young lady who sat next to me on the plane over from Melbourne who was also now in Wellington searching for work. So, we decided to go for ...

... down to the harbour or shorefront. The position of Wellington makes it victim for both northerly and strong southerly winds that whip up straight from the Antarctic and belt through the city, and across the hills. Having said all that, it is a picturesque city with wooden houses, brightly painted roofs poking out from lush verdant hillsides. Downtown Wellington has changed hugely in the last 16 years, or maybe it hasn't that much it is just me who ...

... Cuba street, hvor vi endte med at spise på The Flying Burrito Brothers. Næste dag var vi med kabelbanen en tur op til botanisk have hvor vi bl.a. brugte et par timer på en super legeplads. Vejret var rigtig dejligt og vi sad bare og nød det hele.  28. februar - 3. marts 2009

... apples,peaches,pears and gooseberries grown in the area. But the sauv blanc as well as rieslings,c******nays,gewurtztraminer, pinot noir,merlot - are on the list of tastings at most wineries and are offered generously. Wineries range from the upscale with formal rose gardens and lushly decorated interiors to the casual with an open air tasting area. At Cloudy Bay - NZ's most famous export name - we sit down to a tasting and to plate of dukka - a ...

... 30pm Geoff wasn't there so we got on board and started to put the stuff we bought into the fridge etc, while Kelly went to fetch some ice from the shop nearby. She also got me some sea legs, just in case as I was ill once on a rough ferry crossing so didn't want to take any chances. Once Geoff arrived we set off to Marlborough Sounds where we were going to be mooring up for the night. The water was a bit choppy on the way ...

... is the actual one that Frodo/ Elijah used during filming, and it had been encased in a clear plasticy something - I guess so no one tries to steal it. The rest of the exhibitions were pretty lame compared to that but still good , there was loads of Alan Lee's conceptual paintings and some stuff about JRR Tolkien, the one rubbish thing was that you weren't allowed to take any pictures, which means that I can't show you all the cool things that I saw. The rest of the day ...