today we take a long walk , i mean a long walk along the harbor , onto the other side of the bay. To find oriental parade , which we here is beautiful . Its a long walk , but the sights on the way are amazing , again wellington wows us with its natural beauty and it artistic temperament . It amazing , oriental bay is a man made beach surrounded ...

Another day off for the overworked GVN volunteers. Today's excuse for not working was the official company Christmas party. Toby drove us down to a park on Eastbourne for the big event. When we arrived, Colin, the founder of GVN, was busy handing out glasses of champagne and overseeing the grilling activities. The entire GVN office was in attend...

As I had a free day in Wellington, I planned to visit Middle-Earth, so I joined the LOTR "Full Day Rover Ring Tour" which began on Mount Victoria, at the scene where Frodo Baggins, Sam, Merry & Pippin were hiding from the Nazgūl that for the Ring, which was in the possession of Bilbo Baggins's heir, Frodo. The tour gave us an overview of the...

A little bit of excitement in the hostel on Saturday night. We had a party again for Helena, this one involving a "police officer" in the form of a stripper. It was actually really funny and we all had a good laugh. Helena had no clue and was totally surpised/embarrassed but it was good fun. When everyone headed out, I decided to stay in due to ...

Wednesday was another early start to go and view the flat. We were so impressed with it, that after about 15mins deliberating over it, we decided to take it. Sometimes you've just got to be impulsive - it comes naturally to me, but Graham was stressed for the rest of the afternoon. However, we'd worked out that even without jobs we'd got enough ...

Trying to find somewhere to legally park your campervan overnight in the capital city is easier said than done. In the end we had only one option...a youth hostel car park. classy, and to top it off the only space available to park in was on a 45 degree angle. Neither of us wanted to use the onboard toilet in case we tipped the precarious balanc...

Spent most of yesterday travelling down from Taupo to Wellington which wasnt a very fun drive, amazing scenery though... mountains and volcanoes. In Wellington now which is good. Not much to do during the night but met up with one of tims mates who lives here so he showed us around a bit. Taking the car back now and then going for a bit of a tou...

We had a luxury train journey followed by a very rough ferry crossing (7m waves had lots of passengers feeling pretty queasy) to north island and into Wellington. The first couple of days there certainly lived up to it's reputation as one of the windiest cities in the world. We decided it was far too windy to do too much sightseeing and spent mo...

Hi everyone...am back in the north island after 4 memorable weeks in the south...had a quality time there but i had done everything i wanted to do, so i am going to spend the remaining 2 weeks in the north again. So i am spending 3 nights in Wellington (the windy city) and i have managed to progress from the sofa (last time was in Wellington the...

Since I am loving New Zealand so much, I decided to bump my ticket back to Sydney off for a few more weeks... that way I get to spend a bit more time on the North Island. To do that however, I had to spend the day in Wellington - I couldn't change my ticket over the phone and the buses all left too early to both change my ticket and leave in one...