Wellington

We'll see if I use this or not, but this will be my travel blog type thing for this trip! I'm quite a fun person, so I'm sure it'll make a good read if I do get round to updating it in internet cafes all the time!

Well... My trip... First stop is LA. 5 days there then onto New Zealand for 10 weeks, The frst 2 of which will be spent doing a conservtion project witht the CVNZ. Then i will hop on the Kiwi Experience bus and travel round both islands untill the 5th ...

... inside that one! After we had just about all the knowledge we could handle, we hopped on our bikes and toured the Wellington waterfront. Interesting sculptures, entertainers, lots of people-watching and - best of all - ice cream to eat, was a lovely way ...

... to open our house to couch surfing so that we could return the karma for our future travels. I spent 3 amazing months in Wellington and have fantastic memories that I will always cherish. Luck was definitely on my side those few months, and fate was ...

... to catch us up all trip and there was a dark cloud above our heads that had just started spitting. Instead, we visited Wellington's huge Te Papa Museum, the national museum of New Zealand. Inside was a maze of a varied exhibitions, that would keep even ...

... Maori culture from the States. My theory is that the cities we mostly hear about of New Zealand are Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Queenstown - very English. But most of the other cities, towns, landmarks, streets - you name it - are Maori names. ...

... . So I didn't immediately take to Wellington which, by the way, IS really windy!  Hence it's nickname, Windy Wellington.  I had a good night that evening that I arrived though.  I met up with Dan and Sanhe in a really ...