Wellington Lodges - Reviews and Rates

A brief blog from my last day in Wellington before heading across to the South Island tomorrow. Visited the Parliament and Lambton Quay (the main shopping district) today. I also managed to watch part of the Liverpool vs Lyon game (unusual to be watching a game at 10:00 in the morning!). Finished the day watching the fireworks display set off ac...

Weather: sunny, mostly still, crisp
My mood: happy and chill

After six hours of grocery shopping yesterday, which included a nice little farmer's market where the sellers stared you down in silence until you bought what you sampled, we are all ready for the week in food. There was some tense menu planning going on, but I attribute that...

Kia Ora, nun bin ich etwas frueher als geplant zurueck in Wellington. Bis Weihnachten werde ich aber wohl nicht mehr viel unternehmen, ausser ein wenig shoppen (Utensilien fuer Lasagne wie zB Auflaufform, etc:-). Am 25.12 werde ich dann noch einmal (zum dritten Mal in diesem Jahr) auf die Suedinsel fahren und einige Treks dort unternehmen (Banks...

I wrote some long blog and it didn't work so this will be shorter, sorry. Went to the beach this afternoon because it was nice out and even though I had normal clothes on I still got a little more pink that I had wanted to. Food? Bought grapefruits at farmer's market- they are more orangey on the insides than the Ruby Red back home and much smal...

Bugger the net here sucks too! Oh well will try and remember what we did there! So long ago now. Tuesday 15th January: We arrived in Wellington at 8.30pm and were met by Virginia who we were staying with for a few days. Virginia is the partner of my cousin Tammys dads brother and we met them at her wedding. Anyway she gave us a quick guided tour...

Suddenly it feels like the whirlwind has ground to a halt. And then on the other hand, it's still blowing a gale outside. The whirlwind that was the last two and a half months has settled in Wellington - my new home town for eight weeks. Unpacking the suitcase in the knowledge that I don't have to re-pack it again in a day or so is a welcome nov...

Time for an update again me thinks as I have been pretty slack of late! So back to last week - Tuesday evening I decided I needed a haircut, as the mop was looking a bit of a state. So straight after work I trotted off to find a hairdressers, I eventually found somewhere, got an an immediate appointment and planted myself in the salon chair. My ...

We've discovered the weather here can be pretty cold, windy, damp and generally appalling and doesn't agree with me as most houses do not have central heating and apparently the electricity & gas bills here are sky high, but on a good day it's hard to beat the weather here. I wouldn't call it hot, but I don't need two jackets. The sky is rea...

Well, We have now been in Wellington for about a week and have the city mostly figured out. We went to the Botanical Gardens yesterday and saw some beautiful flowers, ferns, and trees. I think we have done just about all that you can do for free apart from swimming. It has been a variety of temperatures and conditions. On Monday, it was winter, ...

The Adelphi hostel wasn't the party zone that our driver had predicted, in fact there was hardly any noise throughout the night, apart from the door to the hammock area which was just outside our room being slammed shut a few times. We got on the coach after a nervous twenty minutes stood outside of the front of the hostel after the pick up time...