Plimmer Apartments Wellington

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The Weta Cave is a mini museum and shop, you can see some of the real props including swords used in the trilogy and displays of Weta Workshop collectable pieces that are no longer available. It was great to see everything and could have spent a lot of cash in there!




Back in Wellington city around midday, we decided to go and see some Kiwi's at ...

... stadium is an impressive 35,000 all-seater stadium. As I made my way to the ticket booth, I was approached by a Phoenix fan and offered a ticket. I thought he was trying to tout me a ticket, so – trying to help out the local ticket-tout economy – I asked him how much. I was a little surprised when he said it was a comp ticket that he had spare and that I could have it for free. Being English and not wanting to take it for ...

... utalentowani (ojciec jest artystą) i mają sporą wyobraźnie - jak wsiadają do auta (rakiety) przechodzą całą procedurę przygotowania do startu i odpalania statku kosmicznego. Sam spotkałem młodszego parę razy i się z nim zaprzyjaźniłem. W sumie początkowe wątpliwości co do pracy Kirsty rozwiała dość szybko, bo praca jej się dosy ...

... his summer holidays. Greetings to everyone at NCYPE who is returning to work/college/teaching/skiving etc etc. Love from down under. Kirst & Leszek :) Witam, Dzieki za komentarze do bloga - fajnie ze ktos to jednak czyta :) Odwrotnie do zamierzen zamiast na polnoc w przyplywie chwili zdecydowalismy sie na podroz na poludnie - do stolycy - Wellington. Zajelo nam to 9 i pol godziny i bardzo zroznicowane krajobrazy. Jak ...

... the next couple of days, Lambton Heights B&B which was up on the side of one of these hills but only a short walk from the centre of town. Unfortunately no one was home, so I locked the car and went off for an explore. A nice lunch of green lipped mussels and wheat beer at the Mac Brewery in the sunshine on the harbour was had and a quick call located the owners of the B&B who were themselves ...

Another boring day due to the weather. Wanted to do a trek on Mount Taranaki but due to the dark ominous cloud I thought they'd be no point, wouldn't have been able to see a thing. So I drove to Foxton beach where I'm staying tonight. I'm only just over 100km north of Wellington after today's drive. As the sun was setting on the beach, a Maori family brought a big bag of fireworks onto the beach. So I watched the ...

... with the sole aim of having an ethnographic experience. For instance, one tourist to Alaska, a London investment banker who travelled to Fairbanks, Barrow and Nome during the Summer of 1995, said quite simply his reason for visiting Alaska was to "break bread with the Inuit" (Nuttall). Indigenous peoples can be thought of as "marginalized" by tourism, or made to feel like inferior outsiders, when ...

SB: Struggling to wal after the hike, we set off south for our penultimate stop in the North Island, Palmerston North where we planned on catching up with some of Kt's old school friends. Whilst having a very long overdue haircut in PN, the lady asked how long we'd been in NZ. "Oh so you won't have done much yet in a week?". Apparently we'd done more in that week in NZ than in ...

... and enjoyable party, and was nice to meet some of Jill & Paul's friends. Saturday morning, we woke up at 7am to watch the opening game of the Rugby World Cup - France v Argentina. Then Jill took me to yoga, which I've never done before. It was supposed to be easy, but after the class, Jill said that it had been a bit hardcore. So I didn't feel so bad that my whole body was in pain! Paul had an U18s rugby game so ...

Whilst I have been traveling in NZ people have been telling me about an amazing day walk that you can undertake where you walk through amazingly different landscapes. The first time I was in the area the weather was attrocious so no chance to make the crossing but this time it was all good. The walk is called the Tongariro crossing which gives views to Mount Doom (in Lord of the rings) and is a 17km walk that starts in bushwalks and take you up ...