Having made good time driving from Nelson to Picton, rather than waste a night in Picton, we decided to chance our arm on changing our ferry ticket to the North Island to go that very afternoon and as luck would have it, we could! After a choppy 3 hour crossing, we arrived in Wellington and booked into the Capital Gateway Motor Inn. This park seemed nothing more than a carpark with a small kitchen and bathroom consisting of 2 showers and 1 toilet, all for the extortionate price of 27 dollars per person! It was the most expensive yet, with the least attractive facilities, but needs must . . And to top it all, our damn heater broke! Grrr. We headed to the Te Papa museum, which was a brilliant, interactive place, with loads to see
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