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Published: October 28th 2022
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Things I keep forgetting:
* yesterday while we were eating brekky we were watching some tiny dolphins in the water beside the shop - turns out they are the smallest dolphins in the world, and named Hector Doplphins.
* our sommelier, Janine, was tellling us she lost her dad during covid - not from covid but from dengue fever, all of the hospital beds in the Philippines were taken up by covid patients.
* there was a group of staff, wearing their uniforms, at the show the other night. They were the “new contracts”. The new staff get to see a show during their first week.
* we keep finding people in lifts who haven’t pressed numbers. Today at lunch time we accidentally pressed the up button again before a full elevator departed so the door opened and 3 people got out, letting it go without them but not realising they were still on the same floor! Lol.
This morning we arrived in Wellington at breakfast time. Once again we were having to be driven off the port as it‘s too dangerous to have pedestrians, and lucky for us the first stop for the shuttle
was very close to where we wanted to go - the base station for the cable car that ascends one of the mountains surrounding Wellington. We went up and admired the lovely views, and got to talking to a lovely and very interesting couple from Lake Macquarie. We had another lovely cup of coffee. After checking out the cable car museum we descended the mountain and checked out the nearby stores on our way back to the shuttle stop. We caught the shuttle back to the ship and went straight to lunch for some pizza and Shiraz.
After lunch we returned to our stateroom for a read and a rest, and to sit on the balcony and watch the goings on of the dockyard. my internet stopped working for ages, but then at dinner Kuldeep was telling us that we changed internet providers today. The lovely Phoenician couple sat at the table next to us at dinner tonight and they were delightful to chat with.
We had decided not to attend the show after dinner (it was a country and western singer singing Keith Urban songs), but to wander along to look at the shops. As we got out of
the elevator this lady looked at me and pressed a book into my hands and said “do you read? This is a lovely book that I bought at a second hand store, because there’s nothing in the library” - of course it was a brilliant Maeve Binchy book that I have indeed read but wouldn’t mind re-reading. We got to talking and ended up sitting in the bar and chatting for a couple of hours - Patty and her husband Murray live on Vancouver Island and she’s a retired school principal, he’s a retired school grounds maintenance supervisor. They’ll be visiting friends in Wodonga when we return to Aus. They very much have the same attitudes as us.
So we did a little sightseeing, but had a bit of a talk fest today. Wellington is a lovely city. And our new internet providers have stopped my iMessages from working. Urghhhh. I shall have to get tech support tomorrow!
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