Our first full day in Wellington was much like the previous night had been – it maintained it’s wonderful alliterative qualities of wet and windy Welly! This more or less shaped our plans to head for Te Papa, a huge Museum celebrating all that is New Zealand. Spread across six floors, and what felt like …
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Oct
20
Oct
17
New Zealand, Pt 2.
From the morning call at the Auckland Museum, we headed South on our first real drive to Matamata, home of The Shire. What should have been a fairly non-eventful journey was hindered by the distinct lack of road signs in New Zealand, and the fact that their major roads never appear to be particularly major. …
Oct
12
Holidays!
I’m back! My very rapid tour of New Zealand has ended far too soon, I could have easily spent another two weeks traveling back up to the North Island, but one holiday will have to suffice for now. I’ll gradually tell all the details over the next couple of weeks, but we’ll begin at the …