Bolton Hotel Wellington

... that only Americans say restroom) before we go?'  By the time we made it to the restroom, we were both laughing hysterically. Wellington - I discovered like a lot of downtowns, Welly is not very busy at 7 a.m. so I was stuck at a McDonald's ...

Friday, January 13th, Day 49: Today we left Wellington, and caught a train upto Carterton, where we are to spend the next part of our trip. The train journey was extremely pleasant - we glanced out of the train window to see an array of spectacular ...

... pasta and garlic bread... Mmmmmmm. Walking back to the hotel after dinner, and let me just interject here for a moment— Wellington, other than Courtenay Street, was like a ghost town.  Barely anyone was out, there were NO cars except for the ...

Yep, it's my last night in Wellington and my last night of hotel luxury. :)  And good-bye to Stacey. :( I rent a car tomorrow and will be driving back north, in search of some sites and in search of deeper insights into my own soul/mind.  I'm ...

... They also have a collosial squid on display, big enough to swallow a human in a second. It is the larges ever found and they pickled it to preserve it. Apart from that nothing else to report. Wellington seemed pretty cool but we just hit at a bad ...

4:30 we dock in Wellington and pick up a new rental car….same car model and color but a newer one…and one this CLEAN! Yeah a fresh clean car to destroy!  We check into the Bolton with the car stacker. It is strange to be in a large city ...

Our one big day in Wellington and we opted to attempt to find the LOTR sites on our own instead of paying for the tour. Jym said he is enjoying just doing our own thing but quite honestly looking back we should have just done the tour.  It is way too ...

... in a taxi,’ which was improbable at best given the distance and Tasman Sea! The standard was pretty poor and the Wellington Phoenix ran out comfortable 3-0 victors and the best player on the park by a longshot was Paul Ifill – unsurprisingly ...

... spider that is...". We all gave our own welly's a good shake after seeing the last inhabitant of Cynthia's left wellington boot.  There were many challenges laid on in camp. One of which was, who could visit the toilet without getting ...

... to Queenstown on the 2nd; back in Christchurch for the 5th; on to Kaikoura on the 7th; making the crossing from Picton to Wellington on the 10th; moving on to Rotorua on the 12th; and finally returning to Auckland for the evening of the 14th. During that ...

... New Zealand life and hopefully allowed us to save up the money we need for our trip around the country. We finally arrived in Wellington and decided to stay at a better standard hostel, Downtown Backpackers, this was extremley easy to get to, as it was ...