Took the ferry from Picton to NZ's capital city, Wellington. After two months on the South Island, Wellington feels like a big city to me. There are a lot of cars, tall buildings and noisy bars. It is Easter weekend and many places are closed for the public holidays so I think this was not the best time to visit the city as although I enjoyed my time here, I was not sad to leave. Highlights of Wellington were getting the historic cable car (more of a tram really) up to the Botanic Gardens and the observatories which had some excellent films of the Cassini missions to Saturn and the moon landings. Also a planetarium show introducing me to the Southern night sky which I had long been wondering about. The much talked about Te Papa
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