Blogs from Wellington, Wellington Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 2

Geo: -41.2865, 174.776Wellington looked like another attractive small city where work could be exciting and play interesting, helped by more sunny days with perfect blue skies, although the wind was chilly for a couple of days. Our first exploration was on the tram that took us up to the botanical gardens and a view of the city, reminding us of a the peak tram in Hong Kong, though much less busy. Muscle strain in my legs from the Tongariro crossing 2 days before continued to make walking up and down slopes and stairs agony. Its so much easier to be young! kess and Jess identified a funky fish resturant for our last meal together and then they went off to find designer beers and check out the night life ( although still only 8.30pm}while we found ... read more

Not the greatest start to our holiday! Wellington smashed by worst storm in 30 years last night, flight delayed - with luck we fly out at 1205 and arrive in Brisbane 0205. To paraphrase (badly) Elvis: Its a cold and grey Wellington dawn and a another lonely traveller is bored...at the Airport. And his partner sighs. Cos if there's one thing that they don't need its another plane that fails to leave...From the airport. Pilots don't you understand are you to blind to see we've all got some place we'd rather be.....than the airport... That's pretty much destroyed one on my favourite songs! Yup pretty bored already. Still can't be helped fingers crossed we get away today weather still not great. UPDATE Flight cancelled we've been re-booked for 3pm tomorrow. Not the ideal start to our ... read more

We arrived in Wellington in the early hours of Mon 21st Jan after an uneventful and quite boring ferry crossing. We were disappointed that the clouds had prevented us from seeing the star formations but we were now on the North Island and ready for part two of our NZ adventure. The only other slight 'issue' that night was that we had no accomadation! And at 2am we were unlikely to find anything! But, I had planned for this scenario and we had purchased two sleeping bags, and we still had our two pillows so we slept in the car outside the ferry terminal. Madam was not impressed and we wouldn't be doing that again! After a dreadful sleep we left the car and wandered around Wellington for a few hours and got a coffee in ... read more

Mittwoch 31.Oktober 2012 Wellington Heute ist unser letzter ganzer Tag auf der Nordinsel. Es gäbe noch so vieles, was wir uns ansehen möchten, doch uns bleibt nur noch dieser eine Tag. Wir besprechen nach dem Frühstück die Möglichkeiten, berechnen den Zeitaufwand, kommen zu keinem Schluss und überlassen es dem armen Willi, eine Entscheidung zu treffen. Die Seal Colony am Turakirae Head, südwestlich von Wellington, ist die gewünschte Sehenswürdigkeit. Wir machen uns auf der Karte kundig, schätzen den Fahrt- und Gehaufwand ein und freuen uns auf den Ausflug. Der Wettergott ist eindeutig auf unserer Seite, verwöhnt uns mit einem tiefblauen, wolkenlosen Himmel und lässt ein sanftes Windchen wehen, damit uns beim Gehen nicht zu heiss wird, was will man mehr! Wir fahren durch eine bezaubernde Landschaft bis nach Wainuiomata.... und wissen nicht mehr weiter. Nichts ang... read more

Kia Ora! Nå er me i New Zealand, eller Aotearoa, om du vil. Nærmere bestemt på Nordøya. Her lever me det glade backpackerliv – opplever og ser nye ting hver dag. New Zealand har så mykje å by på. Og det er ikkje for ingenting det blir kalt ekstremsportens hjemland. Naturen her er også fantastisk fin, og den er så varierende. Du kan stå på ein plass og se rundt deg. På den eine sida har du norsk natur, på den andre sida tropisk regnskog, og andre plasser ørken, sydenstrender eller høye Alpe-lignende fjellkjeder. Her fins alt! Me starta oppholdet vårt i NZs største by, Auckland. Der utforska me byen, gjekk på gåtur med sikring over Auckland Harbour Bridge, og Christina prøvde Fish n’ Chips som visstnok skal være så populært her. Og på kvelden reiste ... read more