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Wellington Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Wellington, New Zealand
Random Update #1
This is a top pick! ... und habe alle Blicke:-) Er rollt ohne Probleme und springt beim ersten mal an..meisstens zumindestens;-) Unser naechstes Ziel in Wellington ist ein Halbmarathon am 28.06.09Dave mag ja die Rennerei eigentlich nicht aber er hat sich entschieden ...
Random Update #3
This is a top pick! [Random Update #3] Moved to flat next door. New Car + Hawkes Bay trip. Summer in Welly A bit about work. The Band April Trip - Tongaro, 42nd Traverse, Rotarua, The Big Coast Wairap. Wedding Preparations ...
Wellington Boots Auckland Into Touch
This is a top pick! ... tour of Maori cultural displays including lifesize meeting places, houses, war canoes and an exhibition on the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document. Next door was an area called 'Passports', a section that told the stories of people who ...
Why go to Wellington?
This is a top pick! ... the botanical garden, very nice, a good plus point. I then wandered over to the very highly recommeneded 'Te Papa', New Zealand's National Museum. In my opinion, New Zealand's highly overrated museum. Maybe I'm just jadded by visiting too many museums in ...
Wellington
This is a top pick! We're on our way to the Land of the Long White Cloud, known as Aotearoa in Maori, and also known as New Zealand in English. This will be about as far away as we can get from our home countries, so it's a strange feeling to be going there. Before ...
Need your wellies in Welly!
This is a top pick! ... was free) so just photographed the model of the boat used when the Army of the Dead comes (apparently!). We wander around Wellington which is a nice city and pretty easy to get around. There are some older buildings here too which makes a change! ...
Culture and the City
This is a top pick! ... itself in its neglected corners, on those sidetracks and unmarked detours away from the guidebooks. I think we've seen glimpses of this New Zealand and found it to be good. But there's no denying that a nice shot of culture carries its own pleasure. ...
Museum days
This is a top pick! Wellington is often described as New Zealand's cultural capital as well as political capital. So I was keen to visit as many of the famous museums and galleries as possible during my four days here. Unfortunately I was visiting Wellington the same week ...
There be dragons
This is a top pick! We're now in sunny, windy Wellington, which is currently nursing a collective hangover from its Lord of the Rings premier party last week. There's still signs of the film everywhere though, most noticeably in the form of a huge dragon sat on top of the ...
Whistle stop
This is a top pick! A quick stop in wellington, to the museum, and to eat 4 plates of fries between 4 hungry fellows.. . Mice that so many museums and such are free here in Kiwiland, and what ones that are not free are low-priced. They treat you right ...
Arrived in Kiwiland
This is a top pick! ... bus in from Seatoun with the normal mix of colourful locals that use buses across the globe and meandered into the heart of New Zealand - well commercially and politically! I jumped on a train and headed to meet Anna and family in Martinborough. I was ...
Kaikoura to Wellington
This is a top pick! ... ferry, but that may be doing him a dis-service. Not just any old rain, but torrential rain greeted us in Wellington and continued all afternoon. An internet special offer means we're in a quality apartment right in the centre of Wellington, but the ...
The Unborn Drummer
This is a top pick! ... on the grass. My hands and wrist were aching and Ataira was massaging my thumb joint and issuing instructions, play harder...nothing new. I went back to my beat while he took my camera for a stroll around the impromptu camp. Free of the expert by my ...
Big Papa
This is a top pick! Wellington, capital of New Zealand so home to the government or Winnie the Pooh's dream house with the parliament building looking like a giant beehive. Close by is ye olde parliament building with it being the second oldest wooden building in the world ...
Land of the Long White Cloud (North Island)
This is a top pick! We have just arrived in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand after a couple of weeks travelling around the North Island. We first visited Auckland which is in a beautiful harbour surrounded by volcanoes and we took a ferry trip over to Mt Rangitoto and ...
Curry, beer, fish and chips
This is a top pick! ... up with all my travelblogs and about four days behind, this is a problem because I have been out and about most days in New Zealand doing stuff and havent really had time to catch up..... So back to Wellington, only a week ago but seems very distant ...
The Boomerang Cat
This is a top pick! ... they got the cat off the boat, where I guess he remains a resident of the south island. At least for now. 'Wellington's full of freaks..' The last few days in Wellington have passed by with little activity. In the main they've consisted of ...
Whales make a late comeback
This is a top pick! ... stowed in the van, but we passed within 20 m of them and got a really good view. The ferry docked at Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. The main thing we'll remeber about Wellington though is the time it took us to find a parking space! Not ...
Wellington
This is a top pick! Alex: Wellington was another short stop, we had been told it was a nice city but you don't really visit New Zealand for the cities. We attempted to have a walk along the front but the wind stopped us, it was a bit fierce! Instead we had a little walk ...
Summer in Wellington
This is a top pick! Wellington is a fun place to be in Summer. Various locations like the Botanic Gardens have events on a daily basis, free to anyone who wishes to come along. Teddy Bears Picnic, beach volleyball, BMX and breakdancing competitions are just some of the ...
A quick visit to Wellington
This is a top pick! ... were about to land in Wellington somehow the words of a friend from a few years ago popped back into my head, something about Wellington being one of the worlds worst airports to land in, bad winds, short runway leading to fun times. Not really the kind ...
Not so Random Update #3
This is a top pick! ... in on what's been going on: Marriage: Myself and Angie got married twice! Well not really, we got legally married in the Wellington registry office on Bolcott St. It was a small affair and our friends Holger, Alex, Grant, Gill, Gabby and Edwin were there ...
Middle Earth
This is a top pick! ... feels like to be in a mild earthquake and there was even an exhibition on the importance of wool and sheep to the New Zealand economy which was surprisingly entertaining. The Maori culture and history section was cool too, if a little depressing in the ...
In a rut.
This is a top pick! Feeling at bit shit. It might be cause I was snow boarding recently. The guys in the van are wearing me down, and even though everyone is getting along a lot better than before, it's a bit of a task sometimes. Maybe, its a 'bad van' day. Also ...
Te Papa
This is a top pick! ... a job and he's hardly enamoured of the climate. But Wellington does have lots to offer. We visit Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum, a brilliant concoction of glass and steel built on an earthquake fault. Its waterfront downtown location is only 5 ...
The Embassy Theatre
This is a top pick! Julie finally sees "The Return of the King", and does it in style. We catch the morning show at the Embassy, where it had its world premiere a month ago. Jackson spearheaded a move to have this theatre renovated and it is now the largest screen in the ...
Saoirse's first time
This is a top pick! ... didn't seem to be related to the possibility of actually singing in front of anyone. So meeting Ataira in Wellington seemed like divine intervention. There was nothing about our first conversation that suggested we would eventually become two ...
Sevens hits Wellington
This is a top pick! ... for the haka, his reputation and the fact that he does school campaigns to get kids to read more, oh and those mad dreadlocks. New Zealand went into decline after his recent retirement, i lost the last thread of rugby interest i had, well to be fair ...
The Lions come out second best
This is a top pick! ... were accumulating around our feet as the rain continued its unrelenting pounding off the pathways. It is the wettest part of New Zealand, quite an achievement in this country, because of mountain relief and south westerlies and loads of other weather ...