Blogs from Wellington Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 8

Wellington is the Capital city and administrative capital of New Zealand despite being only NZ's second biggest city next to Auckland. It may not take the gold in size but it wipes the floor with the other cities when it comes to being the windiest and wettest. A day at sea prior to arriving in Wellington and at about 4pm a message came from the Bridge announcing a POD of Whales on the port side. Chris and Roisin rushed to their balcony fighting over the binoculars. As Roisin raised the binoculars to her eye's Chris yelled, "Over there!" pointing out to sea. The POD was some distance away and it was not possible to see any of these magnificent beasts breaking the water. They did see, however, a couple of waterspouts shooting upward of 20 feet ... read more

Buenas y santas!!! Como le va a al gente bella que nos sigue?? Hoy es nuestro ultimo día en Papamoa recién terminamos de limpiar todo el depto!!! Porque mañana tenemos que entregarlo, fue un momento muy duro, pero ya paso!!!! Hoy no trabajamos asique anoche hicimos una semi despedida con las chicas del pais vecino!!! Y hoy nos despertamos en un hermoso día soleado, asíque decidimos ir a disfrutarlo, pasamos la tarde en la playa del monte, nos dimos el gusto y comimos pizza con mate y nos sacamos caleta, N fotos (jajaj hablamos chileno) porque Nati se compro una súper cámara profesional y se saco las ganas de usarla, además queríamos material para nuestros seguidores, ósea Uds.!! Seguro que se mueren por ver fotos nuestras haciendo payasadas!!! Porque no vieron ninguna hasta ahora no??? bueno ... read more

A gloomy start to the day. In the daylight we had a chance to look around the campsite we’d came across last night in the dusk, drizzle and gloom - in Ashurst Domain (no Shires here Sam!). The Domain grounds have training grounds, playing grounds, the camping ground and the cemetery ... right next door to the camping ground! Cosy! It wasn’t a bad site though, very reasonably priced (cheap!) - John was chatting to the warden, and he told him that they will soon be charging separately for showers as the locals keep coming over to use them and they’re using up all the hot water! For once the campers were not the ones getting the blame. When we were talking to the lady in the Information Centre in Napier, she was telling us that ... read more

I have to admit I wasn't in top form when I blogged from Rotorua last weekend. I wasn't in a very good hostel and it was also probably the unfriendliest one I'd stayed in to date. I mean, I appreciate some people who travel solo do actually want to be alone, I understand that, but if someone walks into the communial kitchen and says hello (and that's all, I don't cling to people), the least you can do is reciprocate. It reminded me of a discussion with an English guy I met at my hostel in Ahipara a few weeks ago, who was rather wistfully telling me how he had this wonderful idea of sitting around a table in a hostel making new friends, but it hasn't happened. I don't know, are people getting unfriendlier? Anyway, ... read more

Rivendell, crazy sevens action and old friends Well the drive to Wellington didn’t look that far but it was!! Poor Nath had to stop a good few times to reinflate his arse cheeks, and I couldn’t share the burden as my foot was still massive and wouldn’t allow me to wear shoes!! We had stopped part way though at a place called Woodville, where I had seen a poster previously about cheese cakes. We stopped by just to see what the fuss was about at a place called yummy mummy’s and perused the 20 long lists of different flavours. Talk about lush, they then hooked us in with a free sample (it was sooo thick), so we gave in and had the hard decision of only picking two….I had tiramisu and Nath went for raspberry crumbled ... read more