http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , New Zealand , North Island , Wellington en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:57:17 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:57:17 +0000 Ok so the weather has not let up since i have arrived with the exception of one day where i decided to get myself so sunburnt that i can only now sit on my thighs comfortably 4 days later. i only missed one part of my body with cream Other than that it has given england a run for its money. Although to be fair i have been told the whole of the country has suffered this front and i should n http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-457582.html So wellington. After an early hours pajama fire evacuation i woke up to the whole bus having left for the south island and an absolute gale blowing outside. It is notorious for the wind here due to the location and shape of the harbour but walking head on into the wind made my eyes waterwhat the hell am i doing here alone i was in shorts yesterday getting burnt. This place sucks. After http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-456589.html Hi allWow this feels really good Last time I was writing a blog was 3 years ago for my last trip. Here I am making the first entry of my second travel blog for my return to Ecuador and to explore greater south america what an awesome feeling of anticipation and excitement this is I worked for just under 2000 hours sorting mail working full time for 13 months to be able to go away so I feel l http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-454371.html Waitomo var stedet hvor vi boede paa camping spiste fint og legede i grotter og i Rotorua forsaetter vi med vulkaner River rafting og WetZorb Dernaest til National park hvor vi var paa vores livs tur paa Tongariro Crossing og videre til fridage i Wellington. Loerdag tog vi tidligt om morgenen afsked med Paihia for at koere mod Waitomo. Koereturen tog ca. 8 timer hvor vi ind i mellem stoppede http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-452135.html Today was shoe shopping day. I went into a store called Farmers which is basically just a department store like the Bay back home. I ended up finding a really good shirt for job interviews that wasnrsquot too expensive so I bought it. I went into a couple of shoe stores but everything was so expensive I finally found a store called 1 shoes which is just like payless shoes back home and found a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-447106.html Ate some breakfast and then headed out to find some dress pants for job interviews. I went into about 6 different stores. Clothes here are expensive I found one pair of pants I liked but they were 205 NZD yikes I found another pair for 80 NZD and bought them since I was sick of shoppingHad to call Langham and talk to momrsquos side of the family for Thanksgiving. Mom was visiting my grandm http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-447105.html We both packed up all of our stuff had some breakfast and left the Base hostel. I hated the hostel so I decided to move to a different hostel. My new hostel was on the way to the ferry terminal where Meike was going. So we walked together and I dropped my bags at Nomads. I helped her carry her stuff over to the ferry terminal. I waited there with her until she boarded the ferry. It was sad to see http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-447104.html Meike and I looked out the window in the morning and saw some blue sky so we quickly got ready and went to the cable car. We paid 3 NZD and got a ride to the top. Pretty view from up there. It was kind of chilly and of course windy. The clouds were starting to roll in. We decided to walk around the Botanical garden on the downhill track to the city. The gardens are really nice but itrsquos just http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-447103.html Today it was POURING rain out. We didnrsquot even want to go outside. Meike read while I job searched for most of the day. I emailed a hostel in Picton where you can work for your accommodations and they emailed me back right away to let me know that I can come anytime I want. I will go there on October 14th and get out of Windy Welly and off to the South IslandWe went out to the supermarket w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-447102.html Walked into town and looked around at a couple of shops before heading for some lunch. Mom I had eggs benedict which was good but no where near as good as yours We headed to Te Papa museum which is free. It's a huge museum with 6 floors of stuff to look at and a few interactive things. There is a section on Maori culture and polynesian culture. They also have a giant squid that is preserved in http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-444539.html If anyone has ever told you that Wellington is a also known as Windy Welly they were right It's SOOO windy here. All the time too not just some days everyday. It's ridiculous. Meike and I did a town walk to check out the town and ended up at the Beehive their parliament building. It's called the beehive because that's exactly what it looks like. Wellington is the capital of NZ so all the gov http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-444537.html The 12hour bus journey to Wellington was not the most comfortable experience so it would've been nice to check into a decent hostel and relax. Unfortunately we had booked Base hostel which is geared towards teenagers who want to party. Now this wouldn't have been a problem if said teenagers had the ability to clear up after themselves....The 6bed dorm we checked into stank of BO. I found the sou http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-444233.html In the evening 5th October Alex Dan and Me just did the usual chill out and jam type session and had great fun. It was becoming very clear to me that I was going to miss these guys Kindly Alex had offered for me to stay at his house in Wanako on the South Island when I'm down there so at least I will see him again I'm going to try and meet up with Dan again when I have to head north for my r http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-443357.html Kia Ora Bro hello from Aotearoa the land of the long white cloud.Everything here is more magnificent. The landscape is familiar in the sense it has been formed by rain but the vegetation is unusual and the mountains seem so much sharper. If you're looking for what the poets used to call 'the awful' a sense of awe that is what you find in New Zealand. And its wild in a way that England http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-442831.html ein neues Land eine neue Erkenntnis wir sind keine Schafe was traurig ist die haben naemlich ein unglaublich wuscheliges und sicherlich sehr sehr warmes fell...wir leider nicht deshalb muessen wir auch bitterlich frieren Ansonsten sind wir gut angekommen in Neuseeland.Windy Wellington meinte es gut mit uns und war gar nicht so windy was fuer die Landung von Vorteil war. Aber das wahre Gesi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-442557.html Today is a day of travel so not much going on set alarm for 7 and got up at 8 Uncle Donald would be unimpressed with that efficiency The weather upon inspection from our hotel window proved to be what Irsquod describe as miserable squally rain with wind. Am I back at home Nope the yellow buses with the pantograph confirmed wersquore still in Wellington. The flight is at 3pm so wersquo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-441906.html Tue 29th September 2009Give me that blog back crazy womanhellip only joking good job Mrs B. Wersquore up early and down for reasonable breakfast Claire feeling better although not perfect so still manoeuvring for a little moan mid morning I think We looked outside and then were totally confused with what wersquod seen in fact we could not believe it. Yes it was SUNNY and there was http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-440681.html Six months have passed since leaving the land of Blighty much has happened places have been visited people have been met and numerous hostels hotels motels back of cars friends houses strangers houses and finally rented accomodation has been stayed in.Starting at the beginning.....Yeah the flight was long but to be honest not that bad I sat down for 30 hours watching films and listening http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-433096.html Had to tell you all don't know if it has made the news over there WE HAD AN EARTHQUAKE2.10am this morning 5.2 on the scale only 20klms south of Wellington we both woke up and were shaking side to side. I said to Ratko what was that and he said maybe an earthquake. There was another one at 4am of 4.8 but neither of us felt that one.I was only learning about them at the museum the o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-431683.html ThursdayHello everyone.Another busy day today. Ratko is starting work really early so it is an early start for me too.I headed to the Wellington Zoo today. It is only a small zoo but you can get quite close to the animals. It is like Taronga on the side of a hill AND no gondola to the top Got quite a workout.I headed off with my coat not knowing what the weather was going to be like. I was H http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-431504.html