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Published: February 25th 2014
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As we cruised into the capital city of New Zealand, Wellington, our driver Bridge did a lap of the fairly small city to show us the main attractions. We checked into Base Hostel and then me, Freeman, Ali and Craig went to the museum. The first part taught us about all the fault lines and earthquakes that New Zealand has and how this shaped the mountainous landscape. We then went to the sea animals area which had huge bones of whales, the worlds largest squid body and other cool animals. Other floors taught us about the history of immigration to New Zealand and there was a lot on British history as we had a big impact on their country. We reached the viewing platform on the roof which had good views but this was ruined by an over height glass balustrade. We took a walk by the harbour and as I leant over to look for fish I saw a huge stingray with a smaller one following it. There were stairs that you could climb up and jump in the water but after seeing stingray swimming around we didn't fancy it. That was enough touristy business done for the day, it
was time to be lads again so we went to the pub for a pint and then stopped by the liquor store for a bottle of vodka on the way back to the hostel. We drank in the room then went down to basement bar to meet everyone. We did a bit of a mini bar crawl together and all had a good boogy. A few of us ended up at the kebab shop, like classic drunk English people do, and I was telling a shy German guy to admit he liked one of the girls and he just got a bit embarrassed and said he wouldn't admit to anything bless him. After our food we walked back to the hostel and hit the hay.
Most of our Kiwi crew left the next day but me and Freeman decided to stay an extra night as it was the capital. In the day me, Freeman and a guy in our room called Manu went clothes shopping and I finally decided to buy a couple of colourful t shirts as I was fed up with wearing black all the time. The girls arrived from what would now be our new bus
so inevitably we bought more vodka, pre drank and headed out once again. There was an Irish guy in our room called Gary who was a legend so he came out with us as well. The night followed a similar pattern to the one before with a bit of a bar crawl but in the last bar upstairs the heat was too much so me and Freeman decided to call it a night and went to bed.
We had to get up at 6:30am to get the ferry from the North Island down to the South Island. After a longer than expected wait we finally got on the ferry and got good seats next to the window. The Cook Straight crossing took 3 hours so I had a cooked breakfast which is the closest thing I've had to a full English since I have been away, it was amazing. It was fairly rough and people were feeling sea sick so we headed up to the top deck (or top dick if you say it in a Kiwi accent) for fresh air and to check out the views. We arrived in Picton but jumped on another bus so we didn't
see much of it. Straight away it seemed the South Island was even better than the North Island as it was more mountainous, green, beautiful and also had nice beaches. We took the scenic route to Kaiteriteri and arrived there late afternoon, it was time for our South Island adventure to begin!
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