Wellington Travel Blogs - Page 2

New Zealand

Hello everybody! We are in the wonderful city of Wellington, New Zealand, AND WE'VE FINALLY GONE PARTYING! Hahahaha, my body needed alcohol BADLY.The trip from Rotorua to Wellington was kinda long, but we had fun. We found a nice hostel here in Wellington, where we share room with british guys, YES…

The All Blacks are the national rugby team for New Zealand.  And most New Zealanders would say they are the best in the world. This rugby season they have a roadshow travelling to many towns with games to play and the opportunity to meet current and past All Blacks.   Here my photos fr…

I've left the flying kiwi! can't believe how much i wished i could stay on for another two weeks. i'm going to miss the people, the activities, and the opportunities to do things i wouldn't have thought of by myself. but oh well, i'm going on the same ferry tonight, so i'll see most of them&nb…

 Went to wellington yesterday,saw the quarry where alot of LOTR castle scenes like Helms Deep were filmed. Guess what? It looks like a quarry. I spent the morning in the Te Paupa Museum (which is free for everyone, and really quite impressive) but was only as interesting as a museum can be. Th…

The rain stuck around and got worse overnight. The sky was covered in dark clouds and the wind was gusting when I woke up. What could make the day even more depressing? Watching Liverpool on the TV labouring their way around a pitch attempting to play football!The bad weather was in for the day, so…

Windy Wellington lived up to its name as we went for a lovely walk up a hill overlooking the city and nearly got blown off the side by gusts of gale force wind. Stopped with some of Simon's extended family and enjoyed some Wellington fish n chips. yay. Watched a plane come into landing and looked…

From Kaikoura we drove north to Picton, drop off our rental car and boarded the Interisland ferry across the Cook Sraits to Wellington. It was a big ferry but the current was quite strong and after few minutes almost all of us started feeling dizzy.  A word of reminder - Pack proper medicine t…

We spent a leisurely sunday getting back to sunny wellington from Turangi. Stopping for coffee, rapids, look out points and for the Army Museum. We decided to go out for dinner at a lovely steak resturant called 'Crazy Horses'. Red wine, rips, cray fish and steak was all consumed in enormous quanti…

Back in Wellington in a nice backpackers this time. Feels a little strange to be finished, but very cold, so I’m happy to finish now. Shopping for warm fleeces I think, most of mine are letting the wind straight through. I’ve had a fantastic time, friendly people. There are a couple of places t…

Today I arrived in Wellington. Really surprised about the bad weather down here :-( cold and very windy (ok, windy as always). miss the taupo sun...haha. I'm here for 2 nights and then heading north to paraparauhu. Hope to enjoy there sun and the beautiful beach.

Sorry to any avid readers for my lack of journal entries lately. To be fair, I was pretty busy my last week in Costa Rica, the two days of travel to get to New Zealand, and since then traveling here. Anyway... here's the updates!Costa Rica:The last week of volunteering was great. We got a few more …

Windy Wellington.  No one warned me about this.  Windy and cold and bitter.  And it was summer.  This called for an indoor kind of tourist adventure so we headed for the national museum, Te Papa.  I had heard of its newest addition of the world's only COLOSSAL squid on publ…

After a good sleep we have the morning for ourselves, and with a group of 6 we decide to see a little bit more of Wellington. After a chaotic breakfast at 8:30 we left at 9:30. We had to walk a little bit to the place where the cable car is departing. At the top you are immediately also in the bota…

Here are some pictures of my trip to New Zealand. I went to both North and South Island by rental car. Enjoy!!!