Citylife Wellington

... misch war, sind die Faehren nicht gefahren. D** swell (ich kann es nicht ueb**setzen. Seegang vielleicht? Also, wie hoch die Wellen sind) war 14 m. Wir mussten 2 Tage warten, bis wir auf die Faehre konnten und in Picton war nichts zu machen, auss** ausruhen. Das kann ich inzwischen ebenso gut wie nichts machen od** abhaengen od** Zeit rumkriegen. Und auss**dem gab es im Hostel jeden abend leck**en heissen Schokokuchen mit Vanilleeis ...

Well at last we got the camper and set off to Wellington a long drive ahead. We drove through miles and miles of vineyards, must remember to look out for the different names when we get back to Tesco. Some of the most amazing scenery and a really really scary drive through mountains on the approach to Wellington ...

... know of from their work on the Lord of the Rings movies :P) in 2005. It is just across the street of the Embassy Theatre where world premiere of the last movie took place. After some cultural experiences (the sculptures), we went for the natural experience by going up the hill to the botanical garden. We of course didn't actually WALK up the hill (don't be crazy!), we took the very convenient cable car. The gardens themselves weren't hugely impressive, but that might well have been ...

... a little; everyone warns you about the sand flies in southern NZ which are very small flying insects with very nasty bites which we met for the first time where we picked up the coach. Everyone brought out their insect repellent except our coach driver who was joking that no one ever died from insect bites. Well, I thought about 35 people could have died from insect bites because the driver was wearing shorts and ...

Day 48 Wednesday 18th Feb - Wellington to Malborough Sounds Got up and got a quick bowl of cereal then headed over to the supermarket to get supplies for our boat trip. Bought plenty of beers and some salad stuff to go with whatever fish we, hopefully, catch. Also got a sandwich each (as back up lol) and a HUGE vanilla slice each that could feed two people. The marina was only about 15 minutes away so when we got there at about ...

... long he was here...to which he replied 6 weeks but his friend turned round and said that she was here for a year too when I said that was how long I was here for!!!! We chatted the whole ferry long...she was really impressed with all my planning as she hadn't really done any! She had been on the bus from Auckland and had just done the few days stopping but was fed up and wanted to see more!! She is sooo pleased she has found me and I'm really glad too...she wants to travel round ...

... ein Anruf dort nur fuer Masochisten geeignet ist:-) am besten ist es man schickt eine eMail und beschreibt darin auch schoen die Loesung, sonst kann es zu Verwirrungen in China fuehren, zB mein Passwort fuer unser Error Tracking Tool, good old ClearDDTS, habe ich ohne Loesung beantragt, bekam daraufhin als reply, dass das Tool nur in den USA eingesetzt wird und ich nicht in den USA sitze...). Am Mittwoch morgen hatten wir einen netten ...