What I’ve Been Doing
December 14, 2004 6:34 am General
A few weeks ago, Carolyn and myself had a quiet weekend exploring Wellington, availing of the cheap Air New Zealand flights. Wellington was a pretty cool place, more so when the sun shone. It was nicely divided up into different cultural areas – everything from the arts, shopping, pubs and restaurants to hippie Cuba street. We took a look at the waterfront and Oriental Bay, up the cable car to see the Botanic gardens and the ‘Sun dial of human involvement’ [which sucked], Te Papa and did a bit of Christmas shopping. We met up with Mike who took us up along up into the Hutt valley and along the west coast, which was quite beautiful. But it really pissed down on Sunday, with high winds – enough to shut down the airport. Nice city, but I get why a lot of south islanders [ok, at least people from Canterbury] wouldn’t dare to live there. Some photos are online.
This week a cold has hit me for six, and spent much of the past couple of days sleeping. I blame the weather for being spectacularly crap.
