James Cook Wellington

... yerlilerinin direnişi sonucu yorgun düşen Tasman ülkesine geri dönüyor . 1769 da İngiliz kaşif James Cook tarafından ziyaret edilen bu cennet adalar 1840 da Mauri şefleri ile yapılan Waitangi anlaşmas ...

... and found our hotel--after many wrong turns and maybe more than one bad word--we were quite comfortable and able to relax. The James Cook Hotel is beautiful and well staffed. We thought we'd get settled in to our room in time to go catch the cable ...

... eventually. After sorting ourselves out went for a meal at Kopi Restaurant (Malay and Indonesian food. Became very cold and windy walking around so used the Chancellor James Cook Hotel lifts and passages to get back to our hotel which was situated nearby. ...

... , it has only really been inhobbited for about 1000 years. The Maori people crossed over through Indonesia and after a while James Cook and the English came along. Things went relatively smoothly however and a kind of constitution was drawn up between all ...

... .  We picked up our bags, our silver Ford Falcon and drove the 5 minutes or so to get to the James Cook Grand Chancellor.  Wellington was a lot larger than most of the other cities we had been to and the Grand Chancellor was the largest of ...

Arriving in the nations capital we checked into the swanky James Cook Grand Chancellor Hotel. It sounds expensive but our reliable source (www.wotif.com) had found us a great deal on a queen room with free drinks, upgrade, parking, newspaper and 1pm ...

Drive down to Wellington. Wandered around the city a bit and had ploughmans lunch at a pub, Gill had small bottle of fizzy again, I had summer ale. Went to the Te Papa museum and saw a Monet exhibition. Dinner at a strange vegetarian restaurant on ...

we are in Wellington now, the Capitol city on the north side of the Cook Straits where all the wind from the Tasman Sea funnels through a small gap. This is where we will catch a ferry from the north island to the south island. the crossing was closed ...

... tussen het noorder en zuider eiland. De luchtstroming vanuit de Tasman Sea wordt als het ware door de Cook Straight geperst, langs- u raadt het al- Wellington. Windy Welly voor intimi. Tot zover het blokuur aardrijkskunde. We zijn dus, na anderhalve maand ...

... 's husband and son). We then met up with Anne, George and Nick (Anne's other sons) and went for a scenic drive around Wellington before catching the ferry over to the South Island to Picton. The ferry ride goes across the Cook Straight which is where the ...

It was a long drive back to Picton to catch the return ferry over the Cook Strait back to Wellington. We were staying for 2 nights in the capital but unfortunately for us, Elton John was playing the first night and there was not a free bed in the city. We ...

... to struggle through it. Tuesday was our 2nd wedding anniversary. We were both at work, but after work finished, we went to the James Cook Hotel, just up the road from my work. They have a spa in the hotel called Bodyhaven. We'd booked the Exotic ...

... white cloud) as it is known in Maori. He landed here nearly 1000 years ago in his Waka (canoe). More recently in 1769 Captin James Cook anchored in the bay & observed the transit of the planet Mercury in the evening sky.    After our ...

... good wines at Martinborough winery, Schubert, and Ata Rangi, especially Pinot Noir and some nice dessert wines. Then back to Wellington and onto Mt Victoria. Saw filming sites for hobbits in the wood when being hunted by black riders. Some very posh ...

... using. Buzz was also there, chatting to his mate Coddell, a Maori guy who was also a driver for a little film production in Wellington. Something called ‘The Hobbit.’ I tried not to come across as too much of a film geek, but Buzz had already ...

... out that night! Monday morning we left our cmpsite about 10.30am and began heading towards our final destination on the north island 'Wellington' Made a couple of stops alond the way to take in some of the spectacular views and also to break up 360km-ish ...

... ...three weeks in the bush...no showers aloud, swim and 5km run every morning(outward bound kiwi style!). I then arrived in Wellington after a memorable ferry crossing...not because of the normally rough seas...but for the first hour of the journey we ...

... funny reliving all those memories! But it seems like years and years ago that I was there. Another major highlight of Wellington was Te Papa, the museum. It is fairly new and the exhibits are incredibly interactive, which makes them so ...

... were over 12metres away from the building so couldnt pick up reception!  When he said local radio he meant local radio. Wellington looked like a great place to spend more time, we like it more than Auckland and were kind of dissapointed we spent ...

... a few days previous and there was still half a keg of beer left which just had to be finished (Thanks James!). The town of Wellington gave us a much warmer impression than that of Auckland and we have earmarked a few days on our return to the ...