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Windy Wellington & Te Papa
... exciting week to be in Wellington because there is Hobbit stuff EVERYWHERE! Street posts are adorned with banners promoting the forthcoming cinema release of The Hobbit Movie on 12th December. Shops have their windows filled with Hobbit paraphernalia of all descriptions - books, T-shirts, board games, LEGO, figurines, etc. So far the most impressive display though has been at Te Papa of the giant trolls (at least I think they're trolls, but I happily await to be ...
River Valley to Wellington - talking to sheep
... and got back on the bus to head for our next destination of Wellington. On the way we drove through some interesting little towns the most notable one being the town of Bulls! This town is famous for everything from the shops to the police station having some play on the word bulls so for example the police station is also called Consta-bull. Apart from the play on words there was not a lot to see here so we all headed off to McDonalds ...
Rigtige mænd tager faldskærmen ned!
... trække vejret??" rundt i krydderen på mig. For ikke at nævne: "For helvede, hvor er jeg glad for, at jeg ikke havde råd til sådan et handicam, der skulle filme mig lige nu, for jeg ligner da godt nok lort!" Så pludselig var det slut, og jeg mærkede et ryk i hele kroppen da faldskærmen blev trukket. Så ville min instruktør lige high five mig for at havde gjort det, og det var også vældigt fint - jeg var bare i gang med at ...
Wellington
... the city and the harbor. Wellington is a university town so the gardens were full of students playing games, studying and chilling out which gave it a really nice atmosphere. The gardens were far better than we had expected and the cable car up was a nice little quirk. We spent around 3 hours up there strolling around the various themed gardens.
For our final night in Wellington we had budgeted a night out and dinner. We went to a couple of bars along the ...
Smoke Smoke
Shellie was awake early this morning then proceeded to wake me up by causing a smoke out in the sleep out! The smell was really strong and the black smoke coming out the closed door of the wood burner was very impressive, even for Shellie's standards. Once the drama was over we packed our things away as today we are heading back to Wellington where we will spend one night before catching the ferry early on Monday morning to the south island. Once we packed ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Beach
- Free parking
- Kitchenette